On the Marvelous Occurrences in the World

is not discerned what it is. And who is he that would suffice to recount the innumerable errors in sight, whether from a defect of the judgmental faculty, or the medium, or the organ, or the likeness, or from the inequality of those eight which were numbered above as concurring in vision? Hence, if someone asserts that they see a person continuously before them, it is not to be wondered at: just as it is recounted in the third book of the Meteorology original: "Meteororum" concerning Antiphon. For there is such weakness in sight that a reflection made from the air is sufficient for it to see, just as a mirror reflects to me. For every medium is reflective to a greater or lesser degree. This is clear regarding a mirror, and regarding the air; for otherwise, if reflection did not occur from the air, we would not see light. If it is said that Sortes a traditional placeholder name in logic, like "John Doe" continuously sees his father in a chamber, who has long been dead, it is possible; for he has in his internal faculty the likeness of his father or a friend, which he imagines so strongly that he does not attend to what is in his view. And because of this reason, it also happens that he judges a staff or a seen shadow to be his father, because of a strong phantasia imagination/mental imagery. For if things are seen to be present in sleep that are not, because the judgment of the soul is bound during sleep, why can they not appear even when awake, when the phantasia is strong, preventing one from freely attending to what is around? Since we experience daily how a person, while abstracting themselves into contemplation, can activate themselves so intensely in their phantasia that it seems to them they see their father, or