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fol. 24r		 'Of Ideas of Truth' (Pt I, Sn I, Ch V)  	(3.104-5)
      
      
      
     		#53#< Now when an idea has been once received by the senses. any thing which sets
     the memory & imagination to work - inducing the one to recall - and enabling
     the other to recreate - this idea is perfectly - as <t> {that we may} receive from <it>
     {the conception} the same
     impression which we received from <it> {the} reality .  this thing - whether it be a
 5   sound - a symbol - a line - or what not . gives us what I call. an idea of
     Truth .    The pleasure which we receive from <them> {ideas of truth} is in the <per>
     											      consciousness
     		that the idea ^ {now} received is <the> faithfully and actually the same which we
     have received before.  (*  The great difference then. between ideas of truth &
     		ideas of imitation . is that the one[?]  are the perception that <we per> the ideas
10   we receive now).  <we have a> not something like it. but <fa[?]> bona fide
     		the same idea - feebler in degree perhaps. but the same in essence .   As for instance
     the colour in the sky of a painting pleases us. if it be the same colour which
     		we have seen in the sky .  It is not something like it - it is the colour itself.
     Blue is blue - whether on canvass or in heaven - this is the same colour .
15   not a trick - to make us think it is colour - when it is not - but bona fide - the
     		same.     This difference between ideas of truth and ideas of imitation then
     is that the one <are concerned wit> represent to us. that what we see now - we
     		have seen before.  the other . that what we see , is not what it seems to be .
     If we see a bough of a tree well drawn - <we are pleased because> ^ {the idea of truth
     is the suggestion that} the form and angles
20   are the very form & angles which we have seen in nature - not <because it looks>
     		something like them - which is not a form . nor an angle.  Form is form. & angles >

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