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.

ANd first, that colour or Image is not the Apparition of that Motion, I thus prove; That which is the apparition of any thing, makes it appeare in his own co∣lours, as we speak.

But this image or colour (I take them as he puts them down together) makes not that motion appear in its co∣lours; ergo:

The major is evident, for if a thing appeare truly as it is, it appears in its own likenesse, and with such colours as it hath, and unless it be a colour, this Image or colour, he speaks of, makes nothing appear.

The minor I thus prove, If this image or colour make the motion appeare in its colours, then that motion had colour before; but that he denies, for he makes colour to be nothing but the apparition of motion, and if colour or image be the apparition of that motion, that motion must have colour; because it makes the motion appear in no∣thing but colour, either it must have colour, or it cannot appear by colour, or the image of colour.

Again, I can confute this his conclusion, thus; That which is the apparition of any other thing, when that other is the same, then that is the same, and when that other varies or changes, that doth so likewise; but when the stroak or motion from the object is the same, the co∣lour or image varies, and when that is divers, the image is the same, therefore it cannot be the apparition of that motion: The major is evident, for the apparition of any thing, is nothing but the shewing of it as it is: The mi∣nor

will be thus illustrated; Suppose two walls equal∣ly big, the one black, the other greene, these equally strike the brain, the one as the other, but the image or colour represented is black or green, divers; but if any man shall object, that these doe not equally strike the brain, I will let him make them equall in all things but the colour, and then they must equally strike, or if, not, the colour of the wall, not the motion in the braine, is that which onely appeares and makes the difference. Again, when the stroak is divers, sometimes the colour or image is the same; so if we should conceive the strength and difference of motions, we must needs think that solid and strong bodies should move and strike the eye harder then soft and gentle, yet they may easily ap∣pear of one colour; as we may see a Downe-bed, and a stone; either of these instances is enough to shew, that colour or image is not the apparition of that motion, but of the object which makes that motion.

Notes

• Colour, or I∣mage, not the apparition of motion, but of the object.
• 2 Argument.
• 2 Argument.