T 1.2.5.11
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This is our natural and most familiar way of thinking; but which we shall learn to correct by a little reflection. We may observe, that when two bodies present themselves, where there was formerly an entire darkness, the only change, that is discoverable, is in the appearance of these two objects, and that all the rest continues to be as before, a perfect negation of light, and of every colour'd or visible object. This is not only true of what may be said to be remote from these bodies, but also of the very distance; which is interpos'd betwixt them; that being nothing but darkness, or the negation of light; without parts, without composition, invariable and indivisible. Now since this distance causes no perception different from what a blind man receives from his eyes, or what is convey'd to us in the darkest night, it must partake of the same properties: And as blindness and darkness afford us no ideas of extension, 'tis impossible that the dark and undistinguishable distance betwixt two bodies can ever produce that idea.
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| Loeb 1992 | 1.2.5 T 1.2.5 (30 paragraphs) Citation pattern | … any thing unchangeable be ever said to have duration. (T 37) He returns to the theme in 1.2.5: 226Hume Studies A… |
| Strawson 2011 | 1.4.2.57 T 1.2.5 (4 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …edeclaresthathewill'gouponthesupposi tion'that'thereisbothanexternalandinternalworld'(218/1.4.2.57),thesupp ositiontha… |
| 1.2.5 T 1.2.5 (30 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …heresomewhere(withaceteri sparibusclausetocoverglitchesinthebrainofthesortdiscussedin60-1/1.2.5. 20),althoughwedon'… |