 | Thomas Reid - 1822 - 432 sivua
...we see. The ear is not that which hears ; but the organ by which we hear : and so of the rest. A man cannot see the satellites of Jupiter but by a telescope....the natural organ sees as little as the artificial. The eye is a machine most admirably contrived for refracting the rays of light, and forming a distinct... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1827 - 706 sivua
...absurd to conclude, that it is the eye that sees, or the ear ,that hears. The telescope is an artilicial organ of sight, but it sees not. The eye is a natural organ pf sight, by which we see ; but the natural organ" sees as little as the artificial. The eye is a machine... | |
 | George Payne - 1828 - 574 sivua
...see. The ear is not that which hears, but the organ by which we hear; and so of the rest." — "A man cannot see the satellites of Jupiter, but by a telescope....natural organ sees as little as the artificial."* * Vide Vol. I. p. 115. The sentiment thus opposed by Dr. Reid, has been proved to be inconsistent with... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1832 - 610 sivua
...soul sees, for the eye is only the organ, instrument, or minister of the soul in visual perceptions. "A man, (says Dr. Reid,) cannot see the satellites...see ; but the natural organ sees as little as the artijficial." Among other things, illustrative of the correctness of what has-been said, there is this... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1832 - 622 sivua
...this, that it is the telescope, that sees those stars ? By no means; such a conclusion would be absuni. It is no less absurd to conclude, that it is the eye...see ; but the natural organ sees as little as the artiIScial.'' Among other things, illustrative of the correctness of what has been said, there is this... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1839 - 476 sivua
...sees, or the ear that hears. The telescope is an artificial organ of sight, but it sees not. The eye ia a natural organ of sight, by which we see ; but the natural organ sees as little as the artificial." Among other things illustrative of the correctness of what has been said, there is this consideration... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 474 sivua
...soul sees, for the eye is only the organ, instrument, or minister of the soul in visual perceptions. " A man," says Dr. Reid, " cannot see the satellites...the natural organ sees as little as the artificial." Among other things illustrative of the correctness of •what has been said, there is this consideration... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 538 sivua
...Jupiter but by a telescope. Does he conclude from this that it is the telescope that sees those stars 1 By no means ; such a conclusion would be absurd. It...the natural organ sees as little as the artificial." § 1 1 . Sensations are not images or resemblances of objects. But while we are careful to assign sensations... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1842 - 516 sivua
...Jupiter but by a telescope. Does he conclude from this that it is the telescope that sees those stars 1 By no means ; such a conclusion would be absurd. It...the natural organ sees as little as the artificial." $11- Sensations are not images or resemblances of objects. But while we are careful to assign sensations... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1855 - 416 sivua
...inconsistent with all our notions of materiality to consider thought and • feeling as attributes of it. AH we can say with truth and on good grounds is, that...intimate and important connexion existing between the mind and the sensorial organ ; but we should carefully guard against the admission of views which seem... | |
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cannot see the satellites of Jupiter but by a telescope. Does he conclude from this that it is the telescope that sees those stars ? By no means ; such a conclusion would be absurd. It is no less absurd to conclude that it is the eye that sees or the... 
