Sect. 4.
* 1.1I go on with him (he saith the Clapper, the Bell, the ayr have motions, but not sounds; then he brings this motion to the brain, and there he saith is motion, and not sound;
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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last of all, he gives this motion a rebound from the braine to the nerves outward, and thence it becometh an appa∣rition without, which we call sound.) What I have de∣livered before concerning the object of sight, I guess, may be applied to this of sound; but in particular, here are some peculiar absurdities, which I will examine, as that he saith, the rebound to the nerves outward, nerves in the plural number, not naming what; so that, by this Philosophy, for all I see, a man may heare with his eyes or nose, for the rebound may be made to them, and he names not any nerve of the ear; and truly, for all I see by his rebounds, a man may see with his ears, and heare with his eyes, for either of these are capable of such motions as he speaks of. But then let me ask this Phi∣losopher, how this motion becomes an apparition? Had that motion that apparition before, or not? If not, how came it by if afterwards? neither could that motion give it that nature of a sound, or apparition, which it had not, according to his Philosophy, nor any thing else that had it not. If the motion had it before, then either in the brain, the ayr, the bell, or clapper, which he denied. If any thing else had it before, and then produced it, then there was sound before, and this was not the pro∣duction of sound; but he doth not say that it is sound, but that the apparition is called sound; but as before con∣cerning light, of what was that an apparition? was is not an apparition of sound? Then sound was somewhere else; and then how was it made an apparition? was it made by that which had an apparition in it, or not, as before?
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Mr. Hobbes's absurdities in the production of sounds.