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fol. 31v			'Of Ideas of Truth' (Pt I, Sn I, Ch V)  	(3.104f?)
      
      
      
     	
      
      
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     		s[?]*.*  not projection - but something like it .
      
      
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fol. 32r		'Of Ideas of Truth' (Pt I, Sn I, Ch V)  	(3.105?)
      
      
      
     		of imitation not only do not imply their  presence of <many ideas of truth> {<them>} -
     but even
     are inconsistent with <it> {them} .   and that pictures which imitate ^ {& deceive} . are
     never true .
     But this is not the place for the proof of this  .  At present we have only to
     		insist on the third - last - & greatest distinction between ideas of truth &
 5   of imitation : *< that the one are[?] the contemplation of what a thing is - and the other
     		of what it is not .     <He who receives from a picture - or a sentence - the statement
     of a fact> .   A form ^ {of outline} laid on canvass. is as much a real form as if it were
     caused
     by some material object.  We contemplate that form as a reality .  It is as much
     		the form of a tree as if the impression had been made by the tree itself.  A
10   colour is equally a real colour .  whether given to the eye by sky or by the brush .
     		that the one is a contemplation of what a thing is - and the other of
     what it is like . but it not  .     The colour of a true painting is not like the
     		colour of the sky ^ {or earth}.  it is the colour of the sky ^ {or earth} .  The forms of a
     true
     drawing <is> {are} not like the forms of boughs or limbs .  They are the forms of
15   boughs or limbs .    <The> {The} Colour is ^ {the same} colour  & {the} form ^ is
     {the same} form - whether given
     by air or brushes - boughs or strokes -    <But> {But projection - the great aim of
     imitation .} In receiving an idea
     		of truth then - we perceive merely that the idea we receive now . is the same
     		which we {have} received from nature -   Whether suggested by a word - a sound
     or a symbol - does not matter - it is the idea of a certain fact which we 		
20   contemplate as really existing -  But in receiving an idea of imitation - we must >

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