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501 5| elemental"] earth more nearly than salt. Again, a stone 502 7| example, to discern wine when neat than when blended, and so 503 3| however, no such assumption is needful: the stimulatory process 504 5| respiration, guarding against the needless creation of two organs of 505 1| involve its destruction or negation. Now it is clear, alike 506 6| begins] might be solved [negatively]. But it is impossible [ 507 7| colour, or to discern the nete by itself alone, than [when 508 | never 509 4| assume almost all kinds of new savours.~(b) It is likewise 510 2| blazing through the stormy night,~Adjusting thereto, to screen 511 7| or listening to some loud noise. This assumption, then, 512 6| therefore purely abstract and non-sensible] quantities. Again, by what 513 5| were turned into Smoke, the nose would be the organ to discern 514 5| odour moves in through its nostrils, as it were "from a side-entrance."~ 515 4| heat as described] that nourishment is effected by the sweet. 516 5| contains a truth.~ ~Those who nowadays introduce such flavours 517 6| when separated from the object-total. But yet this [small object] 518 1| body in conjunction, is obvious; for they all either imply 519 5| unit, the sense of smell occupies in itself as it were a middle 520 6| the thing beheld] should occupy some particular place; since 521 2| strange too, that it never occurred to him to ask why, if his 522 1| and the causes of their occurrence.~But it behoves the Physical 523 2| so is plain from actual occurrences. It is matter of experience 524 5| Smell.~That the property of odorousness is based upon the Sapid 525 5| explains why the former are offensive to inhalation as the latter 526 2| explained. Its structure is an offshoot from the brain, because 527 2| white of the eye is fat and oily, in order that the moisture 528 7| qualities, [while its numerical oneness is not thereby prejudiced] 529 2| the eye, feel a sudden onset of darkness, as if a lamp 530 1| matter.~The senses which operate through external media, 531 7| the mode in which this operates. What I mean, for example, 532 5| it, if any, is rather the opposite. For the verse of Strattis 533 2| as it does so in ordinary optical reflexion.~If the visual 534 4| alimentation; it attracts [into the organic system] that which is light [ 535 6| by the cause itself which originates the change, and thus the 536 2| translucent.~Now, as vision outwardly is impossible without [extra-organic] 537 3| sometimes produced by painters overlaying a less vivid upon a more 538 3| whenever they are not pure, owe this character to a corresponding 539 1| in addition pleasure and pain. For these may, in fact, 540 3| that sometimes produced by painters overlaying a less vivid 541 4| another; nor have any other pair of substances. Any two things 542 1| may be summed up in four pairs, viz. waking and sleeping, 543 5| then, is that which runs parallel, as has been observed, to 544 6| qualities were not divisible, pari passu with body], we might 545 3| less), that causes them to partake of colour. But since the 546 6| unless when they have been parted from the wholes. So the 547 5| quadrupeds, and all that participate freely in the natural substance 548 3| quantities so minute that [a particle of] either separately would 549 3| well as No. 3 infra], might pass as a real theory of colour-mixture. 550 2| eye, e.g. in the following passage:—~As when one who purposes 551 2| inflicted as to sever the passages of [i.e. inward from] the 552 1| e.g. sensation, memory, passion, appetite and desire in 553 4| the water is changed by passively receiving some affection 554 6| were not divisible, pari passu with body], we might conceive 555 6| object [sc. its quantum of pathema or sensible quality] when 556 6| potentially in the more distinctly perceivable whole of sense-perception), 557 7| imperceptibility ends and perceptibility begins, will have to be 558 1| the attainment of a higher perfection. They bring in tidings of 559 4| without spilling. But since perfectly pure water does not, when 560 5| function, and that they perform it is evident. For food, 561 5| ridiculing Euripides~Use not perfumery to flavour soup,~ contains 562 | perhaps 563 4| they undergo within the pericarp itself; and we see, moreover, 564 5| charcoal, so the lower animals perish from the strong fumes of 565 5| the latter is positively pernicious. They are destroyed, however, 566 3| in the Translucent which pervades determinate bodies; or again, 567 2| formation of images and the phenomena of reflexion. It is strange 568 1| it behoves the Physical Philosopher to obtain also a clear view 569 1| physicians who study their art philosophically, that while the former complete 570 6| that there are magnitudes, physically real, but without sensible 571 1| inquirers, and of those physicians who study their art philosophically, 572 1| principles derived from Physics.~That all the attributes 573 6| several persons in different places hearing or smelling [the 574 3| this "something" we are plainly taught by facts-colour being 575 6| reaches the Earth. This might plausibly seem to be the case. For 576 5| odours of this class their pleasantness or unpleasantness belongs 577 5| latter sort, since their pleasureableness depends upon taste, are 578 4| when pericarpal fruits are plucked [from the tree] and exposed 579 4| to which of the possible polygonal figures [to which Democritus 580 5| itself as it were a middle position between the tactual senses, 581 6| travelling through successive positions in the medium] may with 582 5| unless one of the latter is positively pernicious. They are destroyed, 583 5| vehicle of odour, but qua possessed of a power of washing or 584 5| This explains why sea-water possesses odour, for [unlike "elemental" 585 7| that we cannot conceive the possibility of perceiving two distinct 586 2| because only then could it possibly occur that the same one 587 4| things is bitter; for the potable [sc. the sweet] moisture 588 4| the sense of Taste from potentiality to actuality, is Savour. 589 6| a drop of sapid moisture poured out into the sea. But even 590 1| of truth, speculative and practical, is generated in the soul.~ 591 4| perceptive faculty which pre-existed only in potency. The activity 592 1| consequences, hearing takes the precedence. The faculty of seeing, 593 4| we must speak with more precise detail in our work on Generation: 594 5| different province of sense, precisely what the Dry effects in 595 5| water only. We customarily predicate Translucency of both air 596 7| numerical oneness is not thereby prejudiced] if the fact is not that 597 2| who purposes going abroad prepares a lantern,~A gleam of fire 598 3| determinate bodies the colour presented is definitely fixed, unless, 599 1| them they are a means of preservation; their final cause being 600 2| is that, when the eye is pressed or moved, fire appears to 601 7| must perceive it, is, I presume, itself necessarily indivisible. 602 2| and that darkness should prevail in frosty weather. Flame, 603 3| colour-mixture. Indeed, in the previous case also there is no reason 604 7| reason of this has been previously explained. It is clear then, 605 2| round "lens", [viz.]~the primaeval fire fenced within the membranes,~ 606 5| respiration for two purposes: primarily for the relief thereby brought 607 1| regarded as a supply for the primary wants of life, and in its 608 4| in food [naturally] on a principle analogous to that on which 609 5| they do perceive, though probably not in the same way as creatures 610 6| sense-perception, or the movements proceeding from them ([since movements 611 4| qualified, as it were, to produce germs of savours of all 612 2| darkness, without, however, producing light. Now, the part of 613 6| because each of them is productive of sense-perception, since, 614 5| of this region is thereby promoted. For odour, as a power, 615 2| to consist of fire, being prompted to this view by a certain 616 2| moisture of the eye may be proof against freezing. Wherefore 617 5| because man’s brain is, in proportion to his whole bulk, larger 618 4| or else being mixed in proportions not arithmetically expressible. 619 7| here return to the question proposed above for discussion, whether 620 5| and translucent. Hence the propriety of the figure by which it 621 2| which gives them similar protection.~It is, to state the matter 622 5| which exudes from the former proves, for natron is allied to [" 623 5| have already sufficient provision for their perception of 624 6| person first in order of proximity hears or smells is the same 625 6| mathematical [and therefore purely abstract and non-sensible] 626 3| agreeable; as, for example, purple, crimson, and some few such 627 5| sanguineous animals, e.g. quadrupeds, and all that participate 628 3| their basis a relation of quantitative excess or defect not expressible 629 6| correlatively small object [sc. its quantum of pathema or sensible quality] 630 2| is the meaning of this "quenching" of light? That which, like 631 6| Movement.~The solution of these questions will bring with it also 632 2| should be quenched when rain falls, and that darkness 633 5| and when these are not raised they cannot see, whereas 634 6| different. For Light has its raison d’etre in the being [not 635 2| any two things taken at random. And how could the light 636 2| occur unless the motion is rapid and takes place in darkness. 637 2| become as it were two. The rapidity of the movement has the 638 1| growth of intelligence. For rational discourse is a cause of 639 2| coalesce, as some say, with rays which proceed from the object. 640 7| combined in these do not reach us simultaneously, but only 641 6| at a point midway before reaching their goal (and Sound, it 642 2| which the sense of smell, as realized, is actually; since the 643 4| species of each, if, as is reasonable, we regard Dun [or Grey] 644 4| is changed by passively receiving some affection from an external 645 5| that all animals have a receptacle for food, from which, when 646 4| On the other hand, they reduce the proper to common sensibles, 647 5| All writers incline to refer odour to this cause [sc. 648 3| all else that was said in reference to the colours, considered 649 2| things in which images are reflected do so.~True, then, the visual 650 4| senses are liable to err regarding them, while no such error 651 5| some instances, a fact [registered in language]; for odours 652 3| based on numbers, some are regular in this respect, others 653 4| while the salt and bitter it rejects because of their heaviness. 654 4| infinite; [the possible rejoinder—"that they are so, only 655 5| purposes: primarily for the relief thereby brought to the thorax, 656 7| if the two parts of Soul remain separate, the analogy of 657 4| their nutriment.~(C) It remains, therefore, to suppose that 658 2| in undeveloped embryos is remarkably cold and glistening. In 659 5| exhalation is, as already remarked, composed of Air and Earth. 660 7| consider that of memory and remembering.~THE END~ 661 7| by blending with it has removed some of its individuality, 662 5| respiring the current of breath removes something that is laid like 663 7| something analogous, [the reply is] that of the eyes, doubtless, 664 7| us suppose the part gb, representing a time in which by supposition 665 5| the lower animals shows repugnance to the odour of things which 666 4| far as our subject here requires. Heat causes growth, and 667 3| existence of its own, but residing in these, and subsisting 668 4| will be observed, contain respectively about the same number of 669 5| so that it goes to the respiratory region. It is plain, therefore, 670 5| of those just mentioned respires, and yet they have the sense 671 2| also when the eye is at rest? The true explanation of 672 3| have the other colours for resultants. Their product could, at 673 7| imperceptible.~But we must here return to the question proposed 674 3| treat of the other colours, reviewing the several hypotheses invented 675 5| region, produces unhealthy rheums); therefore it is that odours 676 4| kingdom that tastes occur in richest variety. For, like all things 677 5| For the verse of Strattis ridiculing Euripides~Use not perfumery 678 5| of a power of washing or rinsing [and so imbibing] the Sapid 679 5| generated within water it rises to the surface), and these 680 7| the sun, or a four-cubit rod at a distance, as a magnitude, 681 4| latter is [a mode of the] rough, and the former [a mode 682 4| Magnitude and Figure, Roughness and Smoothness, and, moreover, 683 2| Divine love] embedded the round "lens", [viz.]~the primaeval 684 5| odours, then, is that which runs parallel, as has been observed, 685 5| Indeed all are inclined to rush to this theory of Odour.] 686 1| means of defending and safe-guarding it, while others, again, 687 5| generated for human beings, as a safeguard to health. This is their 688 5| not agreeable to them when sated and no longer in want of 689 5| harsh, astringent rich [="savoury"]; and one might regard 690 6| Empedocles, for example, says that the Light from the 691 2| are covered with a hard scale which gives them similar 692 7| observation. But this can scarcely be true, nor is it conceivable 693 2| transparent sides,~Which scatter the breath of the winds 694 7| were each a set of diverse sciences; for neither will an "activity"" 695 6| the whole grain within its scope; and it is owing to this, 696 2| night,~Adjusting thereto, to screen it from all sorts of winds,~ 697 5| produces it. This explains why sea-water possesses odour, for [unlike " 698 4| used artificially, i.e. for seasoning. These latter are used because 699 5| But the perception of the second class of odours above described [ 700 5| thereby brought to the thorax, secondarily for the inhalation of odour. 701 5| explains why waste matter is secreted from food, either within 702 3| or the [various kinds of] seeds. For of mankind as a whole 703 | seeming 704 7| too, a faculty of sense self-identical, but different from the 705 5| from two distinct kinds of sensations combined, pleasure arises 706 7| come under one and the same sense-faculty, we must conclude that it 707 6| middle point [between the sense-organ and its object], as Odour 708 4| is what marks the acutest sense-Taste should have been the sense 709 2| parts of the body the least sensitive to cold: no one ever feels 710 7| an energeia of the same sensuous faculty]. If then the actualized 711 7| the qualities are really separable in the object from one another, 712 3| that [a particle of] either separately would be invisible, though 713 2| certain fishes, and the sepia of the cuttle-fish, naturally 714 1| have also intelligence they serve for the attainment of a 715 5| nutrition; that, however, it is serviceable to health is equally plain, 716 4| of species. For there are seven species of each, if, as 717 2| temple, so inflicted as to sever the passages of [i.e. inward 718 4| Smoothness, and, moreover, the Sharpness and Bluntness found in solid 719 2| ever feels cold in the part sheltered by the eyelids. The eyes 720 2| the natural property of shining in darkness, without, however, 721 4| subjected to the action of Heat, show any tendency to acquire 722 4| sensibles generally, and showed the most perfect power of 723 7| object be on the hither side one must perceive it, is, 724 5| nostrils, as it were "from a side-entrance."~But the perception of 725 2| sorts of winds,~transparent sides,~Which scatter the breath 726 5| the metals themselves]. Silver and tin are more odorous 727 7| and during the whole time simply because he perceives [some 728 2| its perceptive part is not situated at the external surface 729 5| burnt out of them, their slag is, in all cases, less odorous 730 2| wounded in battle by a sword slash on the temple, so inflicted 731 1| four pairs, viz. waking and sleeping, youth and old age, inhalation 732 2| belong to it in a degree so slight as to be imperceptible to 733 2| the movement of the eye is slow, it is impossible that that 734 4| then—since to discern the smallest objects in each kind is 735 7| imperceptible owing to its smallness, it follows that there would 736 4| and Figure, Roughness and Smoothness, and, moreover, the Sharpness 737 6| Lightness, Hardness or Softness-also infinitely divisible? Or, 738 2| matter of experience that soldiers wounded in battle by a sword 739 5| to health. This is their sole function, and that they 740 4| Sharpness and Bluntness found in solid bodies, are percepts common 741 6| treatise on Movement.~The solution of these questions will 742 6| chapter begins] might be solved [negatively]. But it is 743 2| produced.~This theory, however, solves one question only to raise 744 | somewhere 745 6| object] perceives the Odour sooner [than who is farther away], 746 7| itself alone, than [when sounded with the hypate] in the 747 5| not perfumery to flavour soup,~ contains a truth.~ ~Those 748 6| always arrive first at a spatial middle point [between the 749 6| space between [us and the speaker]; for the reason why [persons 750 7| energeia]: while it predicates specific unity in virtue of [the 751 1| the knowledge of truth, speculative and practical, is generated 752 7| For these are, [in the sphere of colour, for instance], 753 4| Democritus reduces Bitter] is the spherical figure [to which he reduces 754 4| hold in the hand without spilling. But since perfectly pure 755 4| manifest in the case of saline springs, for salt is a form of earth. 756 2| itself all the way to the stars, or else go out merely to 757 5| of the Odorous. For the statement of certain writers that 758 1| are either affections or states of sensation, others, means 759 4| consequently, of their stimulative effect, or else being mixed 760 4| nutrient, and to float on the stomach.~As the intermediate colours 761 5| nearly than salt. Again, a stone is inodorous, just because 762 2| fire blazing through the stormy night,~Adjusting thereto, 763 5| raise the lids, but see straightway [without intermission] from 764 6| yet one hears the whole strain, inasmuch as it is a continuum; 765 2| phenomena of reflexion. It is strange too, that it never occurred 766 5| opposite. For the verse of Strattis ridiculing Euripides~Use 767 5| animals perish from the strong fumes of brimstone and bituminous 768 2| the eye be explained. Its structure is an offshoot from the 769 1| of those physicians who study their art philosophically, 770 6| then when these [minutely subdivided] sensibles have once again 771 6| magnitude], still, since the [subjective] of sense-perception is 772 7| organ. Of the remaining subjects, we must first consider 773 6| same as that which each subsequent person perceives, while 774 6| from a distance] do not succeed in catching the sense of 775 3| time, in order that the succession in the arrival of the stimulatory 776 6| extensive, each part of it successively is affected by the part 777 7| appear to do so, their real successiveness being unnoticed whenever 778 2| inward from] the eye, feel a sudden onset of darkness, as if 779 5| when unmixed, will not suffice for food—for anything which 780 5| other animals have already sufficient provision for their perception 781 7| Soul does not, in the way suggested [i.e. with different parts 782 1| important of these may be summed up in four pairs, viz. waking 783 2| this sort happens to the sunlight.~Empedocles at times seems 784 3| the Pythagoreans named the superficies of a body its "hue", for " 785 1| its direct effects, is the superior sense; but for developing 786 3| considered as juxtaposed or superposed, may be said of them likewise 787 4| that the assimilated food supplies nutrition. For all organisms 788 1| mentioned, seeing, regarded as a supply for the primary wants of 789 4| the atomic figures. Yet surely no one sense, or, if any, 790 2| these fended off the deep surrounding flood,~While leaping forth 791 3| that that in them which is susceptible of colour is in both cases 792 4| not perceived"—cannot be sustained] for why should one savour 793 2| soldiers wounded in battle by a sword slash on the temple, so 794 4| attracts [into the organic system] that which is light [viz. 795 5| middle position between the tactual senses, i.e. Touch and Taste, 796 5| fall within the class of Tangibles), and is also an affection 797 6| sensible quality], it seems to tell in favour of the atomistic 798 2| by a sword slash on the temple, so inflicted as to sever 799 6| do not [actually] see its ten-thousandth part in a grain of millet, 800 3| in On the Soul in general terms, having there determined 801 5| by the case of fishes and testacea, which are seen to possess 802 1| usually base their medical theories on principles derived from 803 2| stormy night,~Adjusting thereto, to screen it from all sorts 804 5| contains in its vessels is thin and pure but easily cooled ( 805 4| all liquids the thinnest, thinner even than oil itself, though 806 4| water is of all liquids the thinnest, thinner even than oil itself, 807 5| relief thereby brought to the thorax, secondarily for the inhalation 808 7| are at the time deep in thought, or in a fright, or listening 809 1| words, and each word is a thought-symbol. Accordingly, of persons 810 4| of savour.~(a) Of these three hypotheses, the falsity 811 2| of this,~Shines along his threshold old incessant beams:~So [ 812 7| assumption, that there is in the time-continuum a time so small as to be 813 5| themselves]. Silver and tin are more odorous than the 814 2| membranes,~In [its own] delicate tissues;~And these fended off the 815 3| these we obtain a mixed total, consisting [like a troop 816 2| even in the dark? It is totally idle to say, as the Timaeus 817 6| object] at a distance, before touching it.~Naturally, then, the 818 | towards 819 6| is further proved by the transformation which the letters [viz. 820 4| in the Moist, capable of transforming the sense of Taste from 821 5| We customarily predicate Translucency of both air and water in 822 2| from all sorts of winds,~transparent sides,~Which scatter the 823 6| though sound and odour may travel,] with regard to Light the 824 3| savour, touch, we have treated in On the Soul in general 825 4| fruits are plucked [from the tree] and exposed in the sun, 826 2| even this would be mere trifling. For what is meant by the " 827 3| total, consisting [like a troop of cavalry] of both together; 828 7| remainder, regarded in its turn as a whole]; for it will 829 5| all existing things were turned into Smoke, the nose would 830 5| The former when condensed turns into water; the latter, 831 6| exists potentially in the two-foot length, but actually only 832 3| colour, when this is itself unaffected, will be different in kind 833 4| water, the latter being uncohesive in its particles; whence 834 3| it when affected by the underlying colour. Hence it presents 835 3| at the surface and those underneath a definite ratio might sometimes 836 2| fire. This also helps us to understand why the olfactory organ 837 3| shown, in a discussion to be undertaken later on, that there is 838 4| water is in itself quite undifferentiated in respect of savour [whether 839 5| of this region, produces unhealthy rheums); therefore it is 840 7| perceived together, must be unified].~If, then, the sensibles 841 4| water contains in itself [uniformly diffused through it] the 842 5| number having always a middle unit, the sense of smell occupies 843 7| province is more likely to be unitemporal than that involving two 844 | unlike 845 | unlikely 846 5| itself alone, that is, when unmixed, will not suffice for food— 847 7| any should be absolutely unnoticeable; the truth being that it 848 3| stimulatory movements may be unperceived, and that the compound colour 849 5| class their pleasantness or unpleasantness belongs incidentally. For 850 5| nourished by odours alone, is unsound. For, in the first place, 851 5| therefore, the latter is untenable, so, too, is the former.~ 852 | until 853 5| sweet to taste, is often unwholesome; whereas the odour arising 854 3| produced in the medium by the upper colour, when this is itself 855 7| which the other is directed] urge that, as there are two eyes, 856 6| same object as another, urging the impossibility of several 857 5| Strattis ridiculing Euripides~Use not perfumery to flavour 858 7| found [on this theory of vacant times and imperceptible 859 5| is either of these. For vaporous exhalation consists of mere 860 3| all distances alike; not varying as it is seen nearer or 861 5| rather the opposite. For the verse of Strattis ridiculing Euripides~ 862 5| which it contains in its vessels is thin and pure but easily 863 4| colours, viz.] Crimson, Violet, leek-Green, and deep Blue, 864 4| though oil, owing to its viscosity, is more ductile than water, 865 3| emanations, and that the visibility of objects is due to such 866 1| summed up in four pairs, viz. waking and sleeping, youth and 867 7| it, or walks in a year by walking in some given part of the 868 7| some given part of it, or walks in a year by walking in 869 5| when sated and no longer in want of it; nor are they agreeable, 870 1| a supply for the primary wants of life, and in its direct 871 4| the water in which they wash to acquire such a quality [ 872 5| an effect as of something washed out in them, it is manifest 873 5| simple. This explains why waste matter is secreted from 874 6| evidently that the air [sound wave] in moving towards them 875 6| in whichever of the two ways [viz. by emanations or by 876 7| always tends to extrude the weaker [from consciousness], is 877 3| parts, which, owing to [the weakness of our] sense, are imperceptible 878 2| should prevail in frosty weather. Flame, for example, and 879 4| is bitter. There are many wells, too, of which some are 880 | where 881 6| movements there are,] in whichever of the two ways [viz. by 882 3| which they consist] are wholly blent together by interpenetration, 883 7| for example, to discern wine when neat than when blended, 884 1| composed of words, and each word is a thought-symbol. Accordingly, 885 1| the former complete their works with a disquisition on medicine, 886 2| experience that soldiers wounded in battle by a sword slash 887 4| the alternative is that Yellow should be classed with White, 888 4| substance, the taste they yield is bitter. There are many 889 5| like the food itself which yields the odours. Hence, as we 890 1| viz. waking and sleeping, youth and old age, inhalation