Project Gutenberg 2003-12-01 Public domain in the USA. 88 Berkeley, George 1685 1753 Berkley, George An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision Produced by Col Choat. HTML version by Al Haines. "An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision" by George Berkeley is a philosophical treatise written during the early 18th century. The work delves into the concepts of perception, specifically addressing how we perceive distance, magnitude, and the situation of objects through sight. Berkeley challenges existing theories on vision, particularly those that assert we perceive these aspects through mathematical angles and geometrical lines, instead proposing that our perceptions are rooted in experience and the ideas we associate with them. At the start of the essay, Berkeley outlines his intention to investigate how we perceive distance and magnitude, asserting that distance itself is not directly visible but rather inferred through experiential judgment. He discusses the relationship between our sensory perceptions—particularly how the sensations related to the positions of our eyes and the ensuing visual confusion contribute to our judgments on the size and distance of objects. By drawing on allegorical examples, such as the perspective of someone born blind, Berkeley illustrates that our understanding of objects' placement and identity is fundamentally experiential and not inherent in the act of seeing itself; rather, it is shaped by our interactions with tangible reality over time. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Vision -- Early works to 1800 B Text Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Psychiatry/Psychology 208008 202877 2024-10-02T13:49:41.821535 2023-10-02T11:36:18.554950 text/html text/html 194836 2020-12-28T06:42:21 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 62538 2020-12-28T06:42:21 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 148115 2024-10-02T13:49:48.505517 application/epub+zip 150641 2024-10-02T13:49:45.253510 application/epub+zip 135080 2024-10-02T13:49:44.011542 application/epub+zip 333451 2024-10-02T13:49:50.889499 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 322408 2024-10-02T13:49:47.757505 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 289536 2022-09-03T04:04:15.009155 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 181973 181940 2024-10-02T13:49:41.375552 2023-10-02T11:36:18.240923 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 181908 2020-12-28T06:42:21 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 60352 2020-12-28T06:42:21 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19345 2024-10-02T13:49:51.013493 application/rdf+xml 18550 2024-10-02T13:49:44.554547 image/jpeg 4215 2024-10-02T13:49:44.281545 image/jpeg 147745 2024-10-02T13:49:41.839535 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia