All, indeed, that is required for this purpose, is, that the same object should uniformly make the same impression on each mind; and that objects which appear different to one should be equally so to others. It will, however, scarcely be supposed, that... The Edinburgh Journal of Science - Page 891831Full view - About this book
| Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1798 - 772 pages
...us, should appear hardly distinguishable to one person, and very different to another, without die circumstance immediately suggesting a difference in...faculties of vision; yet such is the fact, not only widi regard to myself, but to many others also, as will appear in the following account. I was always... | |
| Benjamin Joy Jeffries - 1879 - 336 pages
...such objects as if we were certain the impressions made by them on our minds were exactly similar. It will, however, scarcely be supposed that any two...only with regard to myself, but to many others also. Notwithstanding the occasional study of botany, I was never convinced of a peculiarity in my vision... | |
| 1880 - 798 pages
...his own and other cases, for a long time without becoming known. He says at the outset : " It will scarcely be supposed that any two objects, which are...difference in their faculties of vision ; yet such is the fad, not only with regard to myself, but to many others also." This fact, however, is amply corroborated... | |
| Benjamin Joy Jeffries - 1885 - 364 pages
...such objects as if we were certain the impressions made by them on our minds were exactly similar. It will, however, scarcely be supposed that any two...suggesting a difference in their faculties of vision ; yet »uch is the fact, not only with regard to myself, but to many others also. Notwithstanding the occasional... | |
| Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1895 - 230 pages
...different to one should be equally so to others. It will, however, scarcely be supposed that any t\vo objects which are every day before us should appear...vision; yet such is the fact, not only with regard to myself^but to many others also, as will appear in the following account. "I was always of opinion —... | |
| 1880 - 814 pages
...his own and other cases, for a long time without becoming known. He says at the outset : " It will scarcely be supposed that any two objects, which are...only with regard to myself, but to many others also." This fact, however, is amply corroborated by subsequent experience, true cases of the defect being... | |
| R. F. Hess, L. T. Sharpe, K. Nordby - 1990 - 566 pages
...unthinkable it is, even in the late eighteenth century, for such an anomaly to be manifest among men: f/ wilt scarcely be supposed, that any two objects, which...only with regard to myself. but to many others also . . . (Dalton. 1798. p. 28; our emphasisl. Yet, more than a hundred years earlier, in the late seventeenth... | |
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