Note 19 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
It is important to notice that the proper formula to express what is loosely called 'an appearance' is 'A looks or appears B', and that this cannot be analysed into anything more simple and, in particular, into a statement about 'appearances'. Even in the case of looking at the candle, there is no need to speak of two 'appearances' or 'images'. Before we discover the truth, the proper assertion is 'The body which we perceive looks as if it were two candles', and, after we discover the truth, the proper assertion is 'The candle looks as if it were in two places'.