Sect. 3.
But he urgeth again, that divers times men see the same object double,* 1.1 as two candles for one, which may hap∣pen by distemper, or otherwise without distemper, if a man will, the organs being either in their right temper, or equally
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 ...
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- 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 ...
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distempered. Not to trouble the Reader with my tran∣scribing all, I answer to this, that this double sight may be two wayes, either by a distemper of the Organ, or by a false reflection in the medium. The first I have had, and have been cured by Physick; The second is easie, for there may be multiplying glasses, and many such in∣struments, which many deliver the species double, and then the colour, or object, must appear such: but here is no reason to prove, that the colour is not in the object, because Quicquid recipitur, recipitur ad modum recipien∣tis; if the eye be indisposed, it must needs follow, that the species shall be qualified accordingly; And for the medium, or middle place, or mean, which transports the species ••o the eye, it must needs be, that the liquor will taste of that tap out of which it runs; that every story is enlarged or lessened, multiplyed or diminished, accor∣ding to the affection or disposition of the deliverer, and so the indisposition of the medium varying the species, it must needs be, that the colour must appear such, although it be other; but he proves his conclusion thus [one of these Images therefore is not inherent in the object] See here the fallacy put in his proposition at the first,* 1.2 Confounding colour, and the Image of it: It is true, the Image, or species (for I will maintain that word) is not in the object, but the colour is; and where he sayes, one is not in the ob∣ject, I say neither is, but the colour of which that is an Image, which he in this place doth labour to infringe; and therefore as his Proposition was fallacious, so his proof is vain. And I think I have said enough to this Proposition.
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* 1.1
Whence it is that we s••e the same ••b∣ject d••uble.
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* 1.2
The Image or Species not in the object.