Berkeley’s first major work and the seedbed of his philosophy: distance, magnitude, and situation are not seen directly but suggested by experience, the way words suggest meanings. Sight and touch share no common object — vision is a divine language whose signs we learn in infancy and then mistake for the things themselves.
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