Yes, Philonous, in some sort there is. For example,
when I look on a picture or statue of Julius Caesar, I may be
said after a manner to perceive him (though not immediately) by
my senses.
. It seems then you will have our ideas, which alone
are immediately perceived, to be pictures of external things: and
that these also are perceived by sense, inasmuch as they have a
conformity or resemblance to our ideas?
. That is my meaning.
. And, in the same way that Julius Caesar, in himself
invisible, is nevertheless perceived by sight; real things, in
themselves imperceptible, are perceived by sense.
. In the very same.
. Tell me, Hylas, when you behold the picture of
Julius Caesar, do you see with your eyes any more than some
colours and figures, with a certain symmetry and composition of
the whole?
. Nothing else.
. And would not a man who had never known anything of
Julius Caesar see as much? {204}
. He would.
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