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fol. 25r     [fol. 24v is blank]		'Of Ideas of Truth' (Pt I, Sn I, Ch V)  	(3.105)
      
      
      
     		#55#< are angles - whether seen in oil paint or in wood. The same form . and the same
     angles.     The idea of imitation is in the suggestion that what looks like round
     		wood . is <indeed> {in reality} flat oil paint.
     Now. whether it be the form . colour - sensation - or thought - or whatever
 5   species of idea may be recalled to us . if we have had that idea before
     		and if we are conscious that it is the same.  the thing which recalls it
     gives us what I term  . an idea of Truth.  >
     		Any thing , which  . while it suggests to the imagination or memory the
10   image of anything else,  affects the feelings as the real<ity> presence of the
     		thing whose image it <recalls> {suggests}. would have affected them .   gives us what
     I call an idea of Truth .     If it affects us in a less degree than the reality .
     		as will commonly be the case .  the Truth is feebly.  {given .} but it is still pure truth.
     but if it affect us in a different way . it is not truth at all .     The sketch
15   of a picture may have perfect truth   in every line .  and yet truth feebly
     		rendered -

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