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In every particular in which a picture constitutes a sight that is not identical with the sight represented, the picture will fail to communicate the represented object.
The Physiology of the Senses: Or, How and what We See, Hear, Taste, Feel and Smell (1856)
Theorem I. Any sight of which seeing has not informed me of, is unknown to me. Comments. 1. Sensible knowledge discriminated from intellectual knowledge. 2. The intellectual injury from the privation of any sense.
The Physiology of the Senses: Or, How and what We See, Hear, Taste, Feel and Smell (1856)
Whoever estimates the sensible sameness by the verbal identity of their common name will commit the error of mistaking for physical what is only intellectual. ...the sensible signification of language is strictly limited by the sensible knowledge of the hearer.
The Physiology of the Senses: Or, How and what We See, Hear, Taste, Feel and Smell (1856)