John Jamieson Carswell Smart

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    When a person says, “I see a yellowish-orange after-image,” he is saying something like this: “There is something going on which is like what is going on when I have my eyes open, am awake, and there is an orange illuminated in good light in front of me, that is, when I really see an orange.”
    —John Jamieson Carswell Smart (b. 1920)

    When a person says, “I see a yellowish-orange after-image,” he is saying something like this: “There is something going on which is like what is going on when I have my eyes open, am awake, and there is an orange illuminated in good light in front of me, that is, when I really see an orange.”
    —John Jamieson Carswell Smart (b. 1920)

    For if he meets another cat he will kiss her in kindness.
    For when he takes his prey he plays with it to give it chance.
    —Christopher Smart (1722–1771)