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Full Idea
Bodies are not, properly speaking, perceived by the senses or by the faculty of imagination, but by the intellect alone.
Gist of Idea
We perceive objects by intellect, not by senses or imagination
Source
René Descartes (Meditations [1641], §2.34)
Book Ref
Descartes,René: 'Discourse on Method/The Meditations', ed/tr. Sutcliffe,F.E. [Penguin 1968], p.112