Sense
The powers of perception, such as sight and hearing, and what they can tell us.
Works to read
- Posterior Analytics and Physics by Aristotle, 4th century BCE · Great Books
- History of Animals by Aristotle, c. 350-322 BC · Great Books
- The Works of William Harvey by William Harvey, 1628-1651 · Great Books
- A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley, 1710 · Great Books
- On the Fabric of the Human Body (Preface) by Andreas Vesalius, 1543
- A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume, 1739-1740
- Mental Maladies by Jean-Etienne Dominique Esquirol, 1838 (Hunt trans. 1845)
- The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory by Pierre Duhem, 1906
- Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias by Eugen Bleuler, 1911 (English trans. 1950)
- Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell, 2000
Passages
From the texts
This explains why it is that the senses are liable to err regarding them, while no such error arises respecting their proper sensibles; e.g. the sense of Seeing is not deceived as to Colour, nor is that of Hearing as to Sound.
— Aristotle, Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature)
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