Simple Ideas from Different Senses

Chapter 5

Simple Ideas from Different Senses

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Ideas received both by seeing and touching.

Ideas received through both sight and touch.

The ideas we get by more than one sense are, of SPACE or EXTENSION, FIGURE, REST, and MOTION. For these make perceivable impressions, both on the eyes and touch; and we can receive and convey into our minds the ideas of the extension, figure, motion, and rest of bodies, both by seeing and feeling. But having occasion to speak more at large of these in another place, I here only enumerate them.

The ideas we get through more than one sense are SPACE or EXTENSION, SHAPE, REST, and MOTION. These make perceptible impressions on both sight and touch. Through both seeing and feeling, we can take into our minds ideas of bodies’ extension, shape, motion, and rest. But I will discuss these ideas in more detail elsewhere, so I only list them here.