CHAPTER V.

OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF DIVERS SENSES.

Ideas received both by seeing and touching.

The ideas we get by more than one sense are, of SPACE or EXTENSION,

FIGURE, REST, and MOTION. For these make perceivable impressions, both

on the eyes and touch; and we can receive and convey into our minds the

ideas of the extension, figure, motion, and rest of bodies, both by

seeing and feeling. But having occasion to speak more at large of these

in another place, I here only enumerate them.

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