Part I, Chapter 1
Opens the work with the materialist epistemological claim: 'there is no conception in a mans mind, which hath not at first, totally, or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of Sense.'
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From Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
All thought originates in sense, which is caused by the motion of external bodies pressing on organs; imagination is decaying sense.
Part I, Chapter 2
Defines imagination as 'decaying sense' and explains dreams as imaginations of those that sleep.
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