sense-organs

According to sense-datum theorists, sense-data are internal to one's consciousness: they are not before one's sense-organs.

Pain Aydede, Murat 2009

This is obviously so with, for instance, the abilities for movement in respect of place (e.g., by walking or flying), and for sense-perception, which requires sense-organs.

Ancient Theories of Soul Lorenz, Hendrik 2009

Basically, in each moment there will be some form of physical phenomenon – sights, sounds, smells, tastes, physical sensations – and also the cognitive sensors of the sense-organs, the body, and so on – the photosensitive cells of the eyes, sound-sensitive cells of the ears, and so on.

The Mechanism of Karma: The Mahayana Presentation, Except for Gelug Prasangika ��� Session Two: Mental Factors Associated with Karma 2008

And the most popular version of higher-order perception theory holds, in addition, that humans (and perhaps other animals) not only have sense-organs that scan the environment/body to produce fine-grained representations that can then serve to ground thoughts and action-planning, but they also have inner senses, charged with scanning the outputs of the first-order senses (i.e. perceptual experiences) to produce equally fine-grained, but higher-order, representations of those outputs (i.e. to produce higher-order experiences).

Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness Carruthers, Peter 2007

The other is that our sense-organs need to be suitably harmonized to admit a given atom-type, and the disposition of our passageways can be affected by illness or other conditions.

Democritus Berryman, Sylvia 2004

This may be felt to be too intuitive, like Dr. Johnson's famous objection to Berkeley; but Moore could also see that there were substantive objections to the phenomenalist position, such as the fact that our normal ways of identifying and anticipating significant uniformities among our sense-data draw on our beliefs about our location in physical space and the state of our physical sense-organs, neither of which are available to the consistent phenomenalist.

George Edward Moore Baldwin, Tom 2004

But as it is, because that through which the different movements are transmitted is not naturally attached to our bodies, the difference of the various sense-organs is too plain to miss.

On the Soul 2002

As what is to perceive both white and black must, to begin with, be actually neither but potentially either (and so with all the other sense-organs), so the organ of touch must be neither hot nor cold.

On the Soul 2002

That is why even when the sensible objects are gone the sensings and imaginings continue to exist in the sense-organs.

On the Soul 2002

Observation of the sense-organs and their employment reveals a distinction between the impassibility of the sensitive and that of the intellective faculty.

On the Soul 2002