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If science be the knowledge of the facts perceived by the senses, and scientific evidence, evidence addressed to the senses, then the senses are the only sources of knowledge.

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  1. noun Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.
  2. noun A perception or feeling produced by a stimulus; sensation: a sense of fatigue and hunger.
  3. noun The faculties of sensation as means of providing physical gratification and pleasure.

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