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which discuss propensity, transmutations and the different kinds
of perceptions or discoursing on sight, whether or not
it has an opposite which is called obstruction or blindness.
If this obstruction does exist, then it will be an obstruction
(which prevents the eye) from (seeing) all invisible things,
or a proof which verifies every visible thing that can
be seen, as well as other misleading trivialities.
The second kind of these chapters contains a further expansion
of the same arguments as applied to other subjects, together
with several questions and answers - details which add nothing
but confusion and perplexity to him who has not already
been convinced by the previous material. For there are certain
things which become more obscure with dilation and expansion.
If one were to say that the investigation into the rules of perceptions
of perceptions or discoursing on sight, whether or not
it has an opposite which is called obstruction or blindness.
If this obstruction does exist, then it will be an obstruction
(which prevents the eye) from (seeing) all invisible things,
or a proof which verifies every visible thing that can
be seen, as well as other misleading trivialities.
The second kind of these chapters contains a further expansion
of the same arguments as applied to other subjects, together
with several questions and answers - details which add nothing
but confusion and perplexity to him who has not already
been convinced by the previous material. For there are certain
things which become more obscure with dilation and expansion.
If one were to say that the investigation into the rules of perceptions