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Date: 1785
"And in his [God's] ideas, as in a mirror, we perceive whatever we do perceive of the external world."
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Date: 1785
"Modern Philosophers, as well as the Peripatetics and Epicureans of old, have conceived, that external objects cannot be the immediate objects of our thought; that there must be some image of them in the mind itself, in which, as in a mirror, they are seen."
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