An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision — John Shaqi
An Essay Towards a New Theory of VisionBerkeley, George
Philosophy
An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
Berkeley, George
Vision -- Early works to 1800
93 Such a one might by touch attain to have IDEAS of UPPER and LOWER
94 Which modes of situation he would attribute only to things
tangible
95 He would not at first sight think anything he saw, high or low,
erect or inverted
96 This illustrated by an example
97 By what means he would come to denominate visible OBJECTS,
high or low, etc.
98 Why he should think those OBJECTS highest, which are painted on
the lowest part of his eye, and VICE VERSA
99 How he would perceive by sight, the situation of external objects
100 Our propension to think the contrary, no argument against
what has been said
101 Objection
102 Answer
103 An object could not be known at first sight by the colour
104 Nor by the magnitude thereof
105 Nor by the figure
106 In the first act of vision, no tangible thing would be suggested
by sight
107 Difficulty proposed concerning number
108 Number of things visible, would not at first sight suggest
the like number of things tangible
109 Number the creature of the mind
110 One born blind would not at first sight number visible things
as others do
111 The situation of any object determined with respect only to
objects of the same sense
112 No distance, great or small, between a visible and tangible thing
113 The not observing this, cause of difficulty in erect vision
114 Which otherwise includes nothing unaccountable
115 What is meant by the picture being inverted
116 Cause of mistake in this matter
117 Images in the eye, not pictures of external objects
118 In what sense they are pictures
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.
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