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Students of perception,
therefore, have advanced
beyond the global, all-or-
nothing Nativism-Empiricism
controversy. Instead of asking
whether space perception is
learned or innate, they now
approach the issue in more
specific terms. Is this or that
cue learned? It is plausible to
assume that some cues have an
innate significance while
others come to indicate
distance and depth because
they happen to be present in
the stimulus along with innate
cues. This approach permits us
to see that the perceptual
system can be more easily
modified than the Nativists
recognized. On the other hand,
the Empiricists had no way of
explaining how learning could
occur except by retreating to
other sense modalities. This
approach permits an
alternative explanation.
The discussion of constancy in
the previous chapter and of
pictorial cues to depth in this
one provides the necessary
background for a discussion of
the perception and creation of
pictures. It is to these topics,
considered as part of the
broader problem of perception
and art, that I turn in Chapter
4.