APPEARANCE

APPEARANCE, the exterior Surface of a Thing; or that which first strikes the Sense, or the Imagination. See EXTERIOR and SURFACE.

The Academics maintain, that the sensible Qualities of Bodies are only Appearances; and the like Doctrine is held by some later Philosophers. See ACADEMIC and QUALITY. See also BODY, EXTERNAL WORLD, etc.



Our Errors arise chiefly from a too hasty and precipitate Assent of the Will, which acquiesces too easily in the Appearances of Truth. See WILL, LIBERTY, ASSENT, ERROR, etc.

Appearance, in Perspective, is the Representation or Projection of a Figure, Body, or the like Object, upon the Perspective Plane. See REPRESENTATION and PROJECTION. The Appearance of an objective right Line, is always a right Line. See PERSPECTIVE. The Appearance of an opaque Body and a Luminary being given, to find the Appearance of the Shadow; see SHADOW.

Appearance Of a Star, or Planet. See APPARITION.

APPEARANCE