 | Colin MacLaurin - 1748 - 450 Seiten
...diftance, of it" felf and immediately, cannot be feen. For diftance being a line directed end" wife to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point rer " mains invariably the fame, whether the diftance be longer or fhorter." The1 diftance here fpoken... | |
 | Gerald Eugene Myers - 2001 - 666 Seiten
...point can make no difference in its retinal image, because "distance being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye — which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter." He concluded that distance "of itself and immediately"... | |
 | Margaret A. Hagen - 1986 - 356 Seiten
...that distance, of itself and immediately, cannot be seen. "For distance being a line directed end-wise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter." Therefore, since distance is by its own nature imperceptible,... | |
 | Gary Carl Hatfield - 1990 - 394 Seiten
...that "distance, of itself and immediately, cannot be seen. For, distance being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter."45 The retinal image, as a perspective projection... | |
 | Martin C. Dillon - 1991 - 272 Seiten
...1948), I. p. 171. On the same page Berkeley says that depth as distance "being a line directed end-wise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter." Depth is thus rendered literally invisible, and only... | |
 | Robert G. Muehlmann - 2010 - 281 Seiten
...to be a trivial consequence of the one-point argument. "For distance being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance is larger or smaller" (NTV 2). But if distance perception is not immediate,... | |
 | M. Degenaar - 2007 - 153 Seiten
...that distance, of itself and immediately, cannot be seen. For distance being a line directed end-wise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter.1 Any idea not directly perceived, said Berkeley, must... | |
 | Kurt Koffka - 1999 - 736 Seiten
...that Distance, of itself and immediately, cannot be seen. For distance being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter" (p. 162). Two interdependent false assumptions are... | |
 | Branka Arsi? - 2003 - 228 Seiten
...the subject. Berkeley almost quotes Molyneux's premise: "For distance being a line directed end-wise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter," which, in other words, means that "distance, of itself... | |
 | Robert A. Crone - 2003 - 208 Seiten
...that Distance, of itself and immediately, cannot be seen. For, distance heinga line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter' Here Berkeley makes two obvious mistakes: he makes... | |
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It is, I think, agreed by all that Distance, of itself and immediately, cannot be seen. For, distance being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance... 
