I acknowledge it. But doth not my sense deceive me in
those cases?
. By no means. The idea or thing which you immediately
perceive, neither sense nor reason informs you that it actually
exists without the mind. By sense you only know that you are
affected with such certain sensations of light and colours, &c.
And these you will not say are without the mind.
. True: but, beside all that, do you not think the
sight suggests something of ?
. Upon approaching a distant object, do the visible
size and figure change perpetually, or do they appear the same at
all distances?
. They are in a continual change.
. Sight therefore doth not suggest, or any way inform
you, that the visible object you immediately perceive exists at a
distance, or will be perceived when you advance farther onward;
there being a continued series of visible objects succeeding each
other during the whole time of your approach.
. It doth not; but still I know, upon seeing an object,
what object I shall perceive after having passed over a certain
distance: {202} no matter whether it be exactly the same or no:
there is still something of distance suggested in the case.
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