It is similar with such expressions as, “Each of these
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colour patterns impresses
one.”
We feel we wish to guard against the idea that a colour pattern is
a means to producing in us a certain impression – – the colour
pattern being like a drug and we interested merely in the effect this
drug produces. ‒ ‒
We wish to avoid any form of expression which would seem to refer to an
effect produced by an object on a subject.
(Here we are bordering on the problem of idealism
and
realism and on the problem whether statements of aesthetics are
subjective or objective.)
Saying, “I see this and am impressed” is apt to make
it seem
as though || that the impression was some feeling
accompanying the seeing, and that the sentence said something
like, “I see this and feel a pressure.”