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ven, or the objects of these images less s ea ^because the stars are made appear below theground ■, or men, trees, houses, representsas hanging above us ? What if somePhilosopher had made this a handle to h 6 "come a learned Doubter ? Though perh a P swe might have had another Denomin a£j0(Jof Sceptics from this man ; that would n° £however have made the existence of h erven and earth less certain. This may ^thought a strange supposition j and yetSceptics pretended to doubt of the exifi^of material objects on this very account >viz. from the different appearancesmade by mirrours.-^ ij aurij Se

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tpaivopEvov, vj dxkatov. Diog. Laert. Py rr ^And as this very phænomenon of exhih j£ing the appearances of things by the f°° ’or the glass, supposes and proceedsthe reality of external objects existing*even our dreams, though they have no ^ternal real objects, yet suppose such,are exhibited in imitation of them; s 1upon this account deceive us. There! ^rightly considered, they bring no argum e

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