The Philosophy of Reid As Contained in the "inquiry Into the Human Mind On the Principles of Common Sense"
The Philosophy of Reid As Contained in the "inquiry Into the Human Mind On the Principles of Common Sense"
Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796
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Cheselden's words are, "And now, being lately couched of his other eye, he says, that objects, at first, appeared large to this eye, but not so large as they did at first to the other ; and, looking upon the same object with both eyes, he thought it looked about twice as large as with the first couched eye only, but not double, that we can anywise discover." Secondly, The three young gentlemen mentioned in the last section, who had squinted, as far as I know, from infancy, as soon as they learn...ed to direct both eyes Digitized by Google 272 THE PHILOSOPHY OF REID. ICh. Vt to an object, saw it single. In these four cases, it ap- pears evident that the centres of the retina corresponded originally, and before custom could produce any such effect ; for Mr. Cheselden's young gentleman had never been accustomed to see at all before he was couched; and the other three had never been accustomed to direct the axes of both eyes to the object Thirdly, from the facts recited in § 13, it appears, that, from the time we are capable of observing the phae- nomena of single and double vision, custom makes no change in them.
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