# Kulvicki - Auditory perspectives **Abstract:** ions over intrinsic shapes and orientations. One and the same visible figure is compatible with many shape-orientation pairs. Pictures exploit this fact. By mimicking things’ visible figures, a flat surface can call any number of scenes to mind.2 Correlatively, visible figures cannot be detached from experiences of shapes and orientation. There are no views from nowhere. But it is possible to experience a visible figure without also being aware of intrinsic shape and orientation. In James Turrell’s Skyspace: Twilight Epiphany (2012), a concrete expanse frames a quadrilateral patch of sky. Viewers have no feel for the orientation of the frame, so the whole experience is of a patterned 2d expanse. Some abstract paintings have a similar effect. Because of this, even though visible figures as described here are not the epistemological fundament the sense datum theorists sought, they are unavoidable and significant aspects of the perception of things in space. The sense-datum skeptic has other options for explaining the apparently elliptical aspects of the coins. For example, patterns of light between the perceiver and things perceived have shapes. So, perhaps Moore is aware of the shapes of light patterns, and only thereby the coins and table. Moore sees a sight, one might say, and **Authors:** [[John Kulvicki]]