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At Intellectual Powers II, VI Reid declares (H p.260b):
An object placed at a proper distance, and in a good light, while the eyes are shut, is not perceived at all; but no sooner do we open our eyes upon it, than we have, as it were by inspiration, a certain knowledge of its existence, of its colour, figure and distance. This is a fact which everyone knows.
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Gallie, R.D. (1989). The Epistemological Role of Perception. In: Thomas Reid and ‘The Way of Ideas’. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2436-9_3
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