The theory of vision vindicated and explained / edited, with annotations, by H.V.H. Cowell.

  • Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.
Date:
1860
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Credit: The theory of vision vindicated and explained / edited, with annotations, by H.V.H. Cowell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    whereas, in ftridt and philofophic truth, they are only related as the fign to the thing fignified/6 For we know our Ideas; and therefore know that one Idea cannot be the caufe of another. We know that our Ideas of fenfe are not the caufe of themfelves. We know alfo that we do not caufe them. Hence we know they muft have fome other efficient caufe diftindt from them and us/9 XIV. IN treating of Vifion, it was my purpofe to confider the Effedts and Appearances, the objedts^perceived by my fenfes, the Ideas of fight as connedted with thofe of Touch; to inquire how one Idea comes to fuggeft another belonging to a different fenfe, how things vifible fuggeft things tangible, how prefent things fuggeft things more remote and future, whether by like- nefs, by neceffary connexion, by Geome- trical Inference, or by Arbitrary Institution.' & vf a,t dwwifecL S/owM, 22 •m nu mdJhttt ''4 frwUW scmM, i> Hi ti&t5 Tfu/i st UUeietdcJmL Jjhto Cwkfnfawl. .