Perspectivism, Physics, Ecologism

One prominent application of the concept of Perspective has been in Physics--the Frame of Reference.  Newton uses the structure occasionally, but with the success of Einstein's formulations, it is now widely accepted as a universal feature of Physics.  One important, but generally unrecognized, implication of Frame of Reference is that it illustrates an influential but profound error in Modern Philosophy.  For, it demonstrates that as relativized to a perceiver, the Motion of a perceived object is external to the perceiver.  In contrast, the case of color blindness demonstrates that the perception of color involves an irreducible internal factor.  Hence, Berkeley conflates Locke's Primary Qualities with the latter's Secondary Qualities when reducing the former to the latter, thereby initiating a tradition of completely interiorizing Experience, carried on in various ways by Hume, Smith, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Husserl, etc.  Regardless, the concept of Frame of Reference has its own limitation--it is completely ungrounded in Modern Physics, since it introduces into the system an opacity that is related to other opacities by a relation not derived from the fundamental laws of the system.  In other words, even with Einstein's universalization of it, Frame of Reference is no more than a heuristic device in Physics, albeit a very fruitful one.  Accordingly, Physics is inadequate to Ecologism, which is populated by actual Frames of Reference, i. e. Organisms, that are essentially related to their Environment. Thus, that inadequacy suggests that it is Physics that is derived from Ecologism, and not, as it is widely held, vice versa.