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Theorem I. Any sight of which seeing has not informed me of, is unknown to me. Comments. 1. Sensible knowledge discriminated from intellectual knowledge. 2. The intellectual injury from the privation of any sense.

Alexander Bryan Johnson

Locke supposes that a person acquainted sensibly with the colours which compose a rainbow, can by the names of such colours in a verbal description, be made visually acquainted with a rainbow. The verbal description will give such a person's intellect a good verbal definition of the word rainbow, but it cannot communicate the sight to the extent that it differs, in any manner from the sights he already knows.

Alexander Bryan Johnson

In every particular in which a picture constitutes a sight that is not identical with the sight represented, the picture will fail to communicate the represented object.

Alexander Bryan Johnson