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Quotation from Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature) by Aristotle
“This is the reason too why persons in the delirium of fever sometimes think they see animals on their chamber walls”
Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature), On Dreams, Part 2, trans. J. I. Beare (1908)
An example of how bodily disturbance and emotion turn faint resemblances into apparent perceptions.
Citation: "This is the reason too why persons in the delirium of fever sometimes think they see animals on their chamber walls" — Aristotle, Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature), On Dreams, Part 2, trans. J. I. Beare (1908). (id aristotle-parva-naturalia-q5)
