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    The objects of representations have being only through th... — Carmelics
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    Supports→External objects (bodies) are nothing separated from representations of them.

    The objects of representations have being only through those representations.

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    […] external objects (bodies) are merely appearances, hence also nothing other than a species of my representations, whose objects are something only through these representations, but are nothing separated from them. (A370–1)

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