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... figure from the sound , the odour , and the savour , as the case may be . It is exceedingly helpful to conceive all those matters thus , for nothing falls more readily under sense than figure , which can be touched and seen . Moreover ...
... figure from the sound , the odour , and the savour , as the case may be . It is exceedingly helpful to conceive all those matters thus , for nothing falls more readily under sense than figure , which can be touched and seen . Moreover ...
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... figure is the limit of an extended thing , conceiving by the term limit something more universal than by the term figure , since we can talk of a limit of duration , a limit of motion , and so on . But our contention is right , for then ...
... figure is the limit of an extended thing , conceiving by the term limit something more universal than by the term figure , since we can talk of a limit of duration , a limit of motion , and so on . But our contention is right , for then ...
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... figure ; while , on the contrary , we more often think of the latter when we speak of space . For we frequently say that a thing has succeeded to the place of another , although it does not possess exactly either its magnitude or its figure ...
... figure ; while , on the contrary , we more often think of the latter when we speak of space . For we frequently say that a thing has succeeded to the place of another , although it does not possess exactly either its magnitude or its figure ...
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