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OF CONTENTS.
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  2. Sec. 3. Of the visible appearances of objects
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    462
  3. 4. That colour is a quality of bodies, not a sensation of the mind
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    465
  4. 5. First inference from the preceding
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    467
  5. 6. Second.—That none of our sensations are resemblances of any of the qualities of bodies
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    470
  6. 7. Of visible figure and extension
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    474
  7. 8. Some queries concerning visible figure answered
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    477
  8. 9. Of the geometry of visibles
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    482
  9. 10. Of the parallel motion of the eyes
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    490
  10. 11. Of our seeing objects erect by inverted images
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    492
  11. 12. The same subject continued
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    497
  12. 13. Of seeing objects single with two eyes
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    509
  13. 14. Of the laws of vision in brute animals
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    514
  14. 15. The phenomena of squinting considered hypothetically
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  15. Sec. 16. Facts relating to squinting
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  16. 17. Of the effect of custom in seeing objects single
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  17. 18. Of Dr. Porterfield's account of single and double vision
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  18. 19. Of Dr. Briggs's theory, and Sir Isaac Newton's conjecture on this subject
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    534
  19. 20. Of perception in general
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  20. 21. Of the process of nature in perception
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    548
  21. 22. Of the signs by which we learn to perceive distance from the eye
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    552
  22. 23. Of the signs used in these acquired perceptions
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    561
  23. 24. Of the analogy between perception and the credit we give to human testimony
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    563
  24. CHAPTER VII.
  25. CONCLUSION
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  26. Sec. 1. Containing reflections upon the opinions of philosophers on this subject
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    575

AN ESSAY ON QUANTITY.


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  2. Sec. 1. What quantity is
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  3. 2. Of proper and improper quantity
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  4. 3. Corollary 1
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  5. 4. Corollary 2
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  6. 5. Corollary 3
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  7. Sec. 6. Of the Newtonian measure of force
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  8. 7. Of the Leibnitzian measure of force
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  9. 8. Reflections on this controversy
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    598