Single Idea 4163

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation]

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 Reference

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.