 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pages
...inquirers into natural philosophy ; " namely, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imag" ination, are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities that " have any existence in matter. As this is a truth which has " been proved incontestibly by many modern philosophers,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1809 - 462 pages
...univerfally acknowledged by all the enquirers into natural phihfophy ; namely, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities that have any extftence in matter. As this is a truth which has been proved incontejlably by many modern philofophers,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 362 pages
...universally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philosophy : namely, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imagination are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities that have any existence in matter. As this is a truth which has been proved incontestably by many modern philosophers,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1810 - 502 pages
...'* into natural philosophy, namely, that light " and colours, as apprehended by the imagi" nation, are only ideas in the mind, and not " qualities that have any existence in matter. " As this is a truth, which has been proved " incontestably by many modern philosophers,... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 pages
...illustration of the author's idea, are grounded upon the doctrine of Mr. Locke, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities that have any existence in matter. No. XLVI. ON VISION. With thought from prepossession free, reflect On solar rays,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 342 pages
...universally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philosophy: namely, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities that have any existence in matter. As this is a truth which has been proved incontestably by many modern philosophers,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...universally ac/cnowledged by all the enquirers into natural philosophy ; namely, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities that have any existence in matter. As this is a truth which has been proved incontestably by many modern philosophers,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1823 - 320 pages
...universally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philosophy, - namely, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities that have any existence in matter. As this is a truth, which has been proved incontestably by many modern philosophers,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 322 pages
...universally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philosophy : namely, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities that have any existence in matter. As this is a truth which has been proved incontestably by many modern philosophers,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 pages
...universally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philosophy : namely, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities that have any existence in matter. As this is a truth which has been proved incontestably by many modern philosophers,... | |
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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... 
