Note note 9 — ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENA OF THE HUMAN MIND James Mill

9 In attaining the ideas of synchronous order, which is another name for Space, or the Extended World, sight is a leading instrumentality. It is by sight more than by any other sense that we get somewhat beyond the strict limits of the law of the successiveness of all our perceptions. Although we can distinctly see only a limited spot at one instant, we can couple with this a vague perception of an adjoining superficies. This is an important sign of co-existence, as contrasted with succession, and enters with various other signs into the very complex notion of the author’s synchronous order, otherwise called the Simultaneous or Co-existing in Space.—B.