effluences

Sense organs also have pores, but these function not to connect the sense organ to the seat of intelligence (which for Empedocles is the heart) but to determine whether the sense organ can receive the effluences that are poured forth by external objects (Solmsen 1961, 157; Wright 1981, 230).

Alcmaeon Huffman, Carl 2008

Different sized effluences from the object fit similarly shaped openings or pores in the different organs.

Empedocles Parry, Richard 2005

In any event, using the basic idea of “like by like,” he refines his account of perception to include the idea of “effluences.”

Empedocles Parry, Richard 2005

Its farthest electric effluences were lost in the Southern Cross, whose four bright stars were gleaming overhead.

Robur the Conqueror 2003

To perceive is to receive in the pores of the sense organs effluences from the exter - nal elements, which are recognized by similar elements in the sense organs.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANTHONY A. LONG 1968

Sensation is the result of eidōla (effluences exactly reproducing external objects) striking the sense organs and thus setting up a movement in the mind.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANTHONY A. LONG 1968

They could exchange words and looks, they could arrange private interviews, they would be stooping together over the same book, her hair touching his cheek, her breath mingling with his, all the magnetic attractions drawing them together with strange, invisible effluences.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

Forms, effigies, membranes, or _films_, are the nearest representatives of the terms applied to these effluences.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

The finer spirit of Philo resolves the attendant Dæmon and the messenger-dæmons or angels into the spiritual effluences of the one

Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927

Throughout, God is the cause of all knowledge as well as of being, for these effluences are but an expression of God's activity.

Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927