Meaning of see-er | Babel Free

Definitions

Uncommon spelling of seer.

alt-of, uncommon

Examples

“Firſt in that Pow’r [to whoſe eternal thought / No outward object e’er one image brought, / The part, the whole, the ſee-er and the ſeen, / No diſtance, inference, or act between:] / Reason⟳ preſides, diffuſing thence abroad / Thro’ truth, thro’ things—the Teſt, the Point⟳ of God.”

“Little groups of men and women […] occasionally raise⟳ their shrill clamor for a new party. It seems so easy to them to create⟳ one out of hand, and to make⟳ it perfect from the start⟳. It would contain⟳, by definition, all the forward-looking, all the true lovers of liberty, all the sympathetic spirits that call⟳ upon the rest⟳ to make⟳ sacrifices for the common good, all the dreamers of dreams and see-ers of visions.”

“‘Seeing everything as Mind⟳ itself’ means rather ‘As Mind⟳ itself, seeing everything’: it is a displacement of the see-er from being a see-er of pseudo-objects to being ‘Mind⟳ itself’. The see-er was an object himself, and so a pseudo-see-er.”

“And, moreover, the way of seeing, whatever it was, would never be individual or idiosyncratic, since its source would always be the institutional structure⟳ of which the “see-er” was an extending agent.”

“The discovery of poornatvam lies in understanding the difference between the seen and the see-er. The seen and the see-er concept is beautifully explained by Adi Sankara’s Drig Drishya Viveka. / Seen and See-er Concept / “Let⟳ us suppose⟳ that there is a pot before us. It is seen and I am the see-er. I see⟳ it with my eye, and therefore the eye is the see-er.[…]””

“A person who flees is a fleer, and a person who sees is a seer (though to avoid⟳ confusion with seer meaning `foreteller', the forms see-er and seeër have⟳ been used).”

“Walking home, shoulders slouched, head down, Ian didn’t look⟳ like⟳ the first See-er in hundreds of years. But already, he was. That night he slept fitfully, dreaming of things changing: Mud huts turning into houses. Weeds blossoming into flowers. He woke, wadded up his pillow, and turned oven unaware that building inside him was the answer⟳ that would soon change⟳ everything.”

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