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Full Idea
All perception is intellectual.
Gist of Idea
All perception is intellectual
Source
Arthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Idea [1819], I 004)
Book Ref
Schopenhauer,Arthur: 'The World as Will and Idea', ed/tr. Berman,Jill and David [Everyman 1995], p.8
A Reaction
Even in slugs? I suspect that this is a tautology. Schopenhauer will only allow my vision or hearing to become 'perception' when an intellectual element enters into it.