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How the eye comes to judge distance and size is the question behind George Berkeley's Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, first published in 1709 by the young Irish philosopher. He argues that the lines and angles of optics are not themselves seen, and that distance is suggested by other sensations: the turn of the eyes, the confusedness of appearance and the straining of the eye.

The numbered sections go on to a query from Molyneux's Dioptrics, to what a person born blind would first perceive by sight, to the difference between what sight and touch give us, and to how magnitude is perceived.

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George Berkeley

George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Irish philosopher and bishop, one of the three great British empiricists alongside Locke and Hume. His idealist claim that reality exists only as perception remains among the most debated positions in philosophy, and the city of Berkeley, California, bears his name.

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Author: George Berkeley
Reading time: About 2 hours
Pages: 53
Language: English
Genre: Philosophy
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