Quotes · Quote card
Quotation from Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies by Rene Descartes
“I have heard from those, whose Arm or Leg was cut off, that they have felt _pain_ in that part which they _wanted”
Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Meditation VI, trans. William Molyneux (1680)
Phantom-limb pain is among his reasons for once distrusting even the inward senses, later explained by the nerves running to the brain.
Citation: "I have heard from those, whose Arm or Leg was cut off, that they have felt _pain_ in that part which they _wanted" — Rene Descartes, Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Meditation VI, trans. William Molyneux (1680). (id descartes-meditations-with-objections-q9)
