Mo. S.
A finite intelligence might have foreseen 4 thousand years agoe the place and circumstances, even the most minute & trivial, of my present existence. This true on supposition that uneasiness determines the will.
S.
Doctrines of liberty, prescience, &c. explained by billiard balls.
Wt judgement would he make of uppermost and lowermost who had always seen through an inverting glass?
All lines subtending the same optic angle congruent (as is evident by an easy experiment); therefore they are equal.
We have not pure simple ideas of blue, red, or any other colour (except perhaps black) because all bodies reflect heterogeneal light.
Qu. Whether this be true as to sounds (& other sensations), there being, perhaps, rays of air wch will onely exhibit one particular sound, as rays of light one particular colour.
Colours not definable, not because they are pure unmixt thoughts, but because we cannot easily distinguish & separate the thoughts they include, or because we want names for their component ideas.