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Originally Posted by Iron Greasel
What would you call observing, then? You can't really directly observe the rock or the instrument either. Only the light reflecting (and issuing) from them. Or more accurately, the reactions the light causes in your eyes. It is entirely possible to observe things indirectly, from the effects they have on other things.
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You are inputting problems that aren't there since you have put how we see already in a framework of theory(that of the biology of our eye).
However, in philosophy of science, observing is only by our direct senses. As in your example, we don't see the force or the electron, only the consequences of those theoretical constructs.