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1 6 | But in what way do the senses in man seem to be divisible 2 12| Aristotle makes even the senses passions, or states of emotion 3 12| too. For to exercise the senses is to suffer emotion, because 4 12| knowledge is to exercise the senses; and to undergo emotion 5 12| emotion is to exercise the senses; and the whole of this is 6 14| such, likewise, as the five senses themselves, so well known 7 14| various ways by means of the senses, being not indeed divided, 8 15| placing in the mind the senses, for which they claim the 9 17| XVII. THE FIDELITY OF THE SENSES, IMPUGNED BY PLATO, VINDICATED 10 17| the veracity of those five senses which we learn with our 11 17| touching. The fidelity of these senses is impugned with too much 12 17| declares the operations of the senses to be irrational, and vitiated 13 17| according to them, our senses deceive us, when all the 14 17| deception every one of the senses, and at all times. The Epicureans, 15 17| maintaining that all the senses are equally true in their 16 17| fault, but our opinion. The senses only experience sensation, 17 17| separated opinion from the senses, and sensation from the 18 17| opinion, if not from the senses? Indeed, unless the eye 19 17| between the report of the senses and the reality of the facts. 20 17| which are caused not by the senses, but by reasons and conditions 21 17| occur an illusion in our senses without an adequate cause. 22 17| indicated,) mislead our senses add (through our senses) 23 17| senses add (through our senses) our opinions also, then 24 17| ascribe the deception to the senses, which follow the specific 25 17| occasioned and controlled by our senses, which only follow the causes. 26 17| state of health? All the senses, therefore, are disordered 27 17| we free from reproach the senses, over which the said causes 28 17| certainly to claim for the senses truth, and fidelity, and 29 17| between the report of the senses and the reality of the objects. 30 17| of God Himself: for the senses of man which God has appointed 31 17| existence; whilst by these senses of man, he alone of all 32 17| disparage the testimony of the senses, in the Phoedrus denies ( 33 17| truth of the (poor vilified) senses, lest we should even in 34 18| opposition to the bodily senses another faculty is provided 35 18| palpable nor open to the bodily senses, but are very remote from 36 18| lie under our corporeal senses: the former, (according 37 18| difference between the bodily senses and the intellectual faculties,-- 38 18| symbolize the five bodily senses, seeing that these are so 39 18| which are obvious to the senses, placed as they are in palpable 40 18| true, that to employ the senses is to use the intellect? 41 18| amounts to a use of the senses? What indeed can sensation 42 18| understanding is superior to the senses, and a better discoverer 43 18| of the soul, just as the senses themselves are? It does 44 18| held to be superior to the senses, for the purpose of deducing 45 18| which are embraced by the senses, since these are corporeal, 46 18| the intellect against the senses. For how can the intellect 47 18| intellect be superior to the senses, when it is these which 48 18| intellect evidently uses the senses for its own guidance, and 49 18| mainstay; and without the senses truth could not be attained. 50 18| to be preferred above the senses, on the (supposed) ground 51 18| not be separated from the senses, since the instrument by 52 19| the first effort of the senses, and the initial impulse 53 24| the very safeguard of the senses and intellectual faculties, 54 24| These are, to be sure, the senses, which philosophy depreciates 55 38| by the suggestion of the senses, and the latter by the growth 56 42| the body and destroys the senses, how absurd to say that 57 43| suspension of the activity of the senses;" the Epicureans define 58 43| suspension of the activity of the senses, procuring rest for the