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as the hearing is excluded from apprehending colors and sight from
apprehending sounds and all the senses from apprehending the objects of
reason.
If our opponent does not admit this, we have given a demonstration that a
supra-rational sphere is possible, indeed that it actually exists. If however,
he admits our disputation, he has affirmed the existence of things called
properties with which the operations of reason are not concerned at all;
indeed, reason almost denies them and judges them absurd. For instance,
the weight of a danig (about eight grains) of opium is a deadly poison,
freezing the blood in the veins through its excess of cold. The man who
claims a knowledge of physics considers that when a composite substance
becomes cold it always does so through the two elements of water and
earth, since these are the cold elements. It is well-known, however, that
many pounds of water and earth are not productive of cold in the interior of
the body to the same extent as this weight of opium. If a physicist were
informed of this fact, and had not discovered it by experiment, he would
say, `This is impossible; the proof of its impossibility is that the opium
contains the elements of fire and air, and these elements do not increase
apprehending sounds and all the senses from apprehending the objects of
reason.
If our opponent does not admit this, we have given a demonstration that a
supra-rational sphere is possible, indeed that it actually exists. If however,
he admits our disputation, he has affirmed the existence of things called
properties with which the operations of reason are not concerned at all;
indeed, reason almost denies them and judges them absurd. For instance,
the weight of a danig (about eight grains) of opium is a deadly poison,
freezing the blood in the veins through its excess of cold. The man who
claims a knowledge of physics considers that when a composite substance
becomes cold it always does so through the two elements of water and
earth, since these are the cold elements. It is well-known, however, that
many pounds of water and earth are not productive of cold in the interior of
the body to the same extent as this weight of opium. If a physicist were
informed of this fact, and had not discovered it by experiment, he would
say, `This is impossible; the proof of its impossibility is that the opium
contains the elements of fire and air, and these elements do not increase