See Also: Fechner's Paradox(health)
Fechner's law(dictionary)
Fechner, Gustav(medicine)
Fechner-Weber law(medicine)
Weber-Fechner law(medicine)
Fechner, Gustav Theodor(encyclopedia)
paradox(2)(dictionary)
paradox(1)(dictionary)
paradox(encyclopedia)
paradox(dictionary)

multilingual (iou) and Fechner's Paradox (health)


multilingual (iou)



multilingual adjective & noun. M19.
[from MULTI- + Latin lingua tongue + -AL1.]
A. adjective. Involving several or many Languages; written, spoken, etc., in several or many Languages; having several or many Languages; speaking several or many Languages fluently. M19.
A. S. Dale His family was multilingual, well-read and very eccentric.
b. noun. A multilingual person. M20.
multilingualism noun the ability to speak several or many Languages; the use of several or many Languages: M20.
multilinguist noun a multilingual person E20.
multilingually adverb M20.

Fechner's Paradox (health)


The fact that a monocular view may look brighter than a binocular view. Suppose that a scene is viewed through both eyes but that one eye sees it through a neutral filter that attenuates all wavelengths by a constant ratio. The filter does not distort the reflectances or ratios of light reaching the eye, but only its absolute intensity. If the filtered eye is entirely occluded the scene looks brighter and more vivid than with the filter despite the fact that less total light is reaching the two eyes and the reflectances are still the same.