Observations, censures, and confutations of notorious errours in Mr. Hobbes his Leviathan and other his bookes to which are annexed occasionall anim-adversions on some writings of the Socinians and such hæreticks of the same opinion with him / by William Lucy ...

Sect. 1.

UPon which my first observation is, that although in the head, or contents, of this Chapter, there is put the definition of sense to the 2. number; yet in that 2. number, nor elsewhere in that Chapter, is there any definition of Sense; but in that number, onely some little discourse of the outward cause of Sense wrought by the object; which is most illogically done, and, for lack of defining, he disputes most perplexedly every where. I will not trouble the Reader with cen∣suring every line, but because that which is material in this Chapter consists in four propositions, which he undertakes to prove, I will content my self with an en∣quiry into them.

* 1.11. The first is, that the subject wherein colour and Image are inherent, is not the object of things seen. This he proves, because numb. 5. (every man hath so much experience, as to have seen the Sun, or other visible objects, by reflexion in the water, and the Glasses; and this alone is sufficient for this conclusion, that colour and Image may be there where the thing seen is not.) I stop here, and will first examine the proposition it self, which is pro∣posed with much deceit, for he saith, The subject where∣in colour and Image are inherent, is not the object. He should have proved first, that colour and Image are the same, which he knows is denyed by all his adversaries; colour is in the object of Sight, but there is no need of the Image, where the substance is, nor can the Image of colour be in the same subject with the colour.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Whether the subject, where∣in colour is, be to be the ob∣ject.