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Single Idea 1725

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception]

Full Idea

Why is there not also a sense of the senses themselves? And why don't the senses produce sensation without external bodies, since they contain elements?

Gist of Idea

Why can't we sense the senses? And why do senses need stimuli?

Source

Aristotle (De Anima [c.329 BCE], 417a04)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'De Anima (On the Soul)', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,H.C. [Penguin 1986], p.169