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PART III
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the causes, and the number and indifference of the sides, and have learned how they give an impulse to the thought, and divide that impulse into as many parts as there are unites in the number of sides.
We must now consider the effects of the third particular, viz.

the figures inscribed on each side.

It is evident that where several sides have the same figure inscribe on them, they must concur in their influence on the mind, and must unite upon one image or idea of a figure all those divided impulses, that were dispersed over the several sides, upon which that figure is inscribed.

Were the question only what side will be turned up, these are all perfectly equal, and no one coued ever have any advantage above another.

But as the question is concerning the figure, and as the same figure is presented by more than one side: it is evident, that the impulses belonging to all these sides must re-unite in that one figure, and become stronger and more forcible by the union.
Four sides are supposed in the present case to have the same figure inscribed on them, and two to have another figure.


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