A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision by George Berkeley
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119 In this affair we must carefully distinguish between ideas
of sight and touch 120 Difficult to explain by words the true Theory of Vision 121 The question, whether there is any IDEA common to sight and touch, stated 122 Abstract extension inquired into 123 It is incomprehensible 124 Abstract extension not the OBJECT of geometry 125 The general IDEA of a triangle, considered 126 Vacuum, or pure space, not common to sight and touch 127 There is no idea, or kind of idea, common to both senses 128 First argument in proof hereof 129 Second argument 130 Visible figure and extension, not distinct IDEAS from colour 131 Third argument 132 Confirmation drawn from Mr. Molyneux's problem of a sphere and a cube, published by Mr. Locke 133 Which is falsely solved, if the common supposition be true 134 More might be said in proof of our tenet, but this suffices 135 Further reflection on the foregoing problem 136 The same thing doth not affect both sight and touch 137 The same idea of motion not common to sight and touch 138 The way wherein we apprehend motion by sight, easily collected from what hath been said 139 QU. How visible and tangible IDEAS came to have the same name if not of the same kind 140 This accounted for without supposing them of the same kind 141 OBJ. That a tangible square is liker to a visible square than to a visible circle 142 ANS. That a visible square is fitter than a visible circle, |
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