It is nevertheless evident that, in truth and
strictness, nothing can be
; and the coach is
not then properly perceived by sense, but suggested from
experience. So likewise when we are said to see a red-hot bar of
iron; the solidity and heat of the iron are not the objects of
sight, but suggested to the imagination by the colour and figure
which are properly perceived by that sense. In short, those
things alone are actually and strictly perceived by any sense,
which would have been perceived in case that same sense had then
been first conferred on us. As for other things, it is plain they
are only suggested to the mind by experience, grounded on former
perceptions. But, to return to your comparison of Caesar's
picture, it is plain, if you keep to that, you must hold the real
things, or archetypes of our ideas, are not perceived by sense,
but by some internal faculty of the soul, as reason or memory. I
would therefore fain know what arguments you can draw from reason
for the existence of what you call objects>.
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