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We are prisoners of the sense we have about the world because of our size, and rarely recognize how different the world must appear to small animals.

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Marius HancuWe are prisoners of the sense we have about the world because of our size, and rarely recognize how different the world must appear to small animals.

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because of our size
refers to everything in front of it
thus you must understand what's going on in there.

We think this way about the world because we have this size.

Marius Hancubecause of our size
refers to everything in front of it
thus you must understand what's going on in there.

We think this way about the world because we have this size.

Everything. Well, yes. Broadly speaking, it is

The sense/view we have (of the world) is because of our size.
The sense/view we have (of the world) is heavily influenced by our size.
This is the core idea, like in Gulliver's Travels, perhaps.

Then you can add being prisoners of that view.

Marius HancuThe sense/view we have (of the world) is because of our size.
The sense/view we have (of the world) is heavily influenced by our size.
This is the core idea, like in Gulliver's Travels, perhaps.

Then you can add being prisoners of that view.

Hmm...so you think it's (2).

But isn't it also possible

Hi Taka,

The statement seems odd to me, perhaps more conceptually than grammatically. All creatures of any size are going to have a sense of the world that is determined in part, but only in part, by their size. (The pull of gravity, by the way, relates to weight not size.) I don't believe the author is suggesting that a large size is more of a prison than a small size. The prison i

davkett,

Davkett All creatures of any size are going to have a sense of the world that is determined in part, but only in part, by their size. (The pull of gravity, by the way, relates to weight not size.) I don't believe the author is suggesting that a large size is more of a prison than a small size.

For your information, this is how the origni

We have a different and limited understanding of the physical rules of the world we live in because we are different in size, different forces act upon us from those do upon small creatures, or rather, forces that are infinitesimal in magnitude considerably influence minute animals, while leaving us unaffected.
Surface tension allows water insects (water spider) not to sink. We woul

Well Taka, I don't have your advantage of the complete text, however I don't see any reason here to change my view that 'because' refers to 'sense of the world.' The author, by the way, seems to contradict himself/herself by declaring that smaller animals do not have an experienceof gravity equivalent to ours, yet claims that we as humans cannot recognize how different the world appears to smalle