 I have here supposed that my reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philosophy : namely, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imagination, are only...  Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Page 115by Hugh Blair - 1823Full view - About this book
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...prefent univerfally acknowledged by all the Enquirers into Natural Philofophy : Namely, that Lightand Colours, as apprehended by the Imagination, are only...Ideas in the Mind, and not Qualities that have any Exiftence in Matter. As this is a Truth which has been proved inconteftably by many Modern Philofophers,... | |
 | English essays - 1737 - 336 pages
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 | English essays - 1753 - 382 pages
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...difcovery, which is at prefent nniverfally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philofophy : namely, that light and colours, as apprehended by...imagination, are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities tr.at have any exigence in matter. As this is a truth that has been proved inconteftably by many modern... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Knowledge, Theory of - 1785 - 572 pages
...difcovery, which is at prefent " univerfally acknowledged by all the in" quirers into natural philofophy, namely, "that light and colours, as apprehended "...in " the mind, and not qualities that have *' any exiftence in matter. As this is a *' truth which has been proved incontefta" bly by many modern philofophers,... | |
 | George Adams - Science - 1794 - 734 pages
...Newtonian theory, by Voltaire and fome other infidel writers. Thefe men fuppofe that light and colour, as apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities that have any exiftence in matter. Strange as this may feem, it has been univerfally received, and confidered by... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Knowledge, Theory of - 1801 - 510 pages
...** into natural philofophy, namely, that light *1 and colours; as apprehended by the imagt". nation, are only ideas in the mind, and not ." qualities that have any exiftence in matter. " As this is a truth, which has been proved " inconteftably by many modern philofophers,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...impressions of the subtle matter on the organ of sight. I have here supposed that my reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all the enquirers into natural philosophy : namely, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imagination,... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...matter on the organ of sight. I have here supposed that my reader is acquainted with that great modem discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged...natural philosophy ; namely, that light and colours, at apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities that have any existence... | |
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