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A discourse upon the nature and faculties of man, in several essays: With some considerations upon the occurrences of humane life.Of the senses.

A discourse upon the nature and faculties of man, in several essays: With some considerations... This chapter discusses the senses. Of the five senses, three serve more immediately for the operations of nature and life: feeling, tasting, and smelling; the other two, seeing and hearing, are instrumental to the operations of the understanding. Tis a maxime in philosophy that the operations of the understanding do depend on those of sense, which may be understood two ways. First, that the intellect does in its actual exercise depend immediately upon sense. Secondly that it does immediately depend on sense; in as much as the first notions it has of things, were originally derived from the informations of sense. Sensation may be described after this manner: the image of an object arriving to the organ of sense, it makes the impression upon the nerves which are there terminated for that use, each of which is so curiously formed, and is of such a certain specific contexture as it makes it capable only to receive the images belonging to some particular sense. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A discourse upon the nature and faculties of man, in several essays: With some considerations upon the occurrences of humane life.Of the senses.

Nurse, Tim.
American Psychological Association — May 7, 2012
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This chapter discusses the senses. Of the five senses, three serve more immediately for the operations of nature and life: feeling, tasting, and smelling; the other two, seeing and hearing, are instrumental to the operations of the understanding. Tis a maxime in philosophy that the operations of the understanding do depend on those of sense, which may be understood two ways. First, that the intellect does in its actual exercise depend immediately upon sense. Secondly that it does immediately depend on sense; in as much as the first notions it has of things, were originally derived from the informations of sense. Sensation may be described after this manner: the image of an object arriving to the organ of sense, it makes the impression upon the nerves which are there terminated for that use, each of which is so curiously formed, and is of such a certain specific contexture as it makes it capable only to receive the images belonging to some particular sense. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: May 7, 2012

Keywords: senses; perception; sensory perception; sense organs; understanding

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