 | Chapter XIII
Complex Ideas of Simple Modes:--and First, of the Simple Modes of the Idea of
Space An essay concerning human understanding |  |
2. Idea of Space.
I shall begin with the simple idea of space. I have showed above, chap. V, that we get the idea of space, both by our sight and touch; which, I think, is so evident, that it would be as needless to go to prove that men perceive, by their sight, a distance between bodies of different colours, or between the parts of the same body, as that they see colours themselves: nor is it less obvious, that they can do so in the dark by feeling and touch.
| Chapter XIII
Complex Ideas of Simple Modes:--and First, of the Simple Modes of the Idea of
Space An essay concerning human understanding | |