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Visible means "able to be seen." You can see things that emit or reflect light. Abstract concepts don't emit or reflect light. Real objects can only approximat
by Benjo 15y ago
Visible means "able to be seen." You can see things that emit or reflect light. Abstract concepts don't emit or reflect light.
Real objects can only approximate a circle. The pedantic definition of a circle in this context is being used to make the point that you can't make a perfect circle with pixels.
- lutorm 15y agoNo. If you made an abstract object that emitted light, like the "linear light source" I hypothesized, it would be a perfect circle, and visible. It doesn't exist, of course, but if it did, it would be visible... ;-)