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long as they are not in any way contrasted or compared with perceived objects; and that Dr Reid is also right in maintaining that imagined objects are never believed to have a real existence, that is, they are never believed to have a real existence when we compare or contrast them, even in the slightest degree, with perceived objects. It is in this way that I would reconcile the opinions of the two philosophers respecting the belief which the one of them attaches, and the other of them denies, to the existence of imaginary objects.
