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  • From them he draws certain general assumptions; in particular, the soul is the principle responsible for thought, sensation and perception (Aristotle's single word aisthesis covers both), and movement.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANTHONY A. LONG 1968

  • From them he draws certain general assumptions; in particular, the soul is the principle responsible for thought, sensation and perception (Aristotle's single word aisthesis covers both), and movement.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas 1925

  • It is known that for St. Gregory of Nyssa "the feeling of the presence" of God, the "aisthesis parousia," was a synonym of mystical experience.

    Archive 2008-12-14 papabear 2008

  • In the Kant of the first Critique, aesthetics is treated rigorously in terms of its etymology as aisthesis, and refers to the domain of sensibility.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • It is known that for St. Gregory of Nyssa "the feeling of the presence" of God, the "aisthesis parousia," was a synonym of mystical experience.

    Zenit: Father Cantalamessa's 2nd Advent Sermon papabear 2008

  • In Aristotle, phantasia is what comes between aisthesis and nous, that is, the end product of sensation and the start of intellectual activity.

    Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy Lagerlund, Henrik 2004

  • It is only at the instant when the aforesaid state or affection (of the aisthesis or upolepsis) is implanted in the soul that memory exists, and therefore memory is not itself implanted concurrently with the continuous implantation of the (original) sensory experience.

    On Memory and Reminiscence 2002

  • It is only at the instant when the aforesaid state or affection (of the aisthesis or upolepsis) is implanted in the soul that memory exists, and therefore memory is not itself implanted concurrently with the continuous implantation of the (original) sensory experience.

    On Memory and Reminiscence 2002

  • Possessing aisthesis means possessing at least one (touch) of the five senses, and it also entails imagination, pleasure and pain, and de - sire.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANTHONY A. LONG 1968

  • It has been observed that an explanation of aisthesis as a “process of being acted on” does not square well with the active notion of “discrimination,” which

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANTHONY A. LONG 1968

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