Vision

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Vision is one of the sensations theorized by Epicurus to have (like all sensations) an atomic basis. To account for how we see, Epicurus postulated a theory of images, conceived of as streams of particles continuously thrown off in "husk-like" eminationations from the surfaces of objects.

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