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summons

is a way to describe how the perceptual object has an influence on me.

When speaking of one's attention being drawn by an object, Merleau-Ponty uses the term summons (without scare quotes) to refer not to an action undertaken by me but to the influenceon me of a perceptual object.To see an object is either to have it on the fringe of the visual field and be able to concentrate on it, or else respond to this summons by actually concentrating on it.(PhP, 67/78, my italics)3 (Dreyfus 'response to Romdenh-Romluc) ( Baldwin)

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