Cameron, Evan Wm.2019-03-292019-03-291981http://hdl.handle.net/10315/36072In 1787 Immanuel Kant published a second edition of his Critique of Pure Reason. Within a new preface he reaffirmed an identity that his critics had failed to comprehend: we and God encounter things differently rather than different things. A century later Louis Lumière, by the first public screening of a movie, exemplified a comparable identity that a good many nonfilmmakers have ever since failed to comprehend: we see differently by means of movies the same things that stood before the camera as the film was exposed rather than different things. I sketch within this essay the consequences of those identities for logic and filmmaking, foremost among them that identity claims, carefully construed, are irrefutable, disposing of impotent counterarguments.enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 CanadaBerkeley, GeorgeBazin, AndreCavell, StanleyEastman Kodak CompanyFilmmakingGregory, RichardHistory, Philosophy ofHochberg, J. E.IdentityKant, ImmanuelKracauer, SiegfriedLogicLumière, LouisNegationPasolini, Pier PaoloPhilosophyPhilosophy, History ofPhotographyQuine, Willard van OrmanRealismScruton, RogerSeeing MoviesSesonske, AlexanderWalton, KendallCameron, EvanPresentation