sense-impressions

” We cannot even infer them: —“In the chaos behind sensations, in the ‘beyond’ of sense-impressions, we cannot infer necessity, order or routine, for these are concepts formed by the mind of man on this side of sense-impressions”; but we must infer chaos: —“Briefly chaos is all that science can logically assert of the supersensuous.

The Grammar of Science (1903) 1918

But we aren't our mind, we aren't our thoughts, we are what remains after these sense-impressions evaporate like morning dew under the scorching sun of wait-for-no-one reality.

Poetry: a Zen Sin? 2010

Sense-perception, conceived of simply as the reception of sense-impressions by the nonrational soul, does not involve memory (cf. L&S 16B1).

Ancient Theories of Soul Lorenz, Hendrik 2009

Perceptual beliefs, like the belief that ˜there is a horse over there™, will be explained, in Epicurus 'theory, in terms of sense-impressions and the application of concepts

Ancient Theories of Soul Lorenz, Hendrik 2009

Error arises at a later stage, when sense-impressions are interpreted by the rational part of the soul, in a way that, as we have seen, crucially involves memory.

Ancient Theories of Soul Lorenz, Hendrik 2009

The nonrational part of the soul, which in Lucretius is somewhat confusingly called soul [anima], is responsible for receiving sense-impressions, all of which are true according to Epicurus.

Ancient Theories of Soul Lorenz, Hendrik 2009

Or a hibernation-like state sets in, a physical condition in which all sense-impressions glance off or are neglected.

Archive 2009-05-01 David McDuff 2009

Moreover, sense-impressions, interpreted and articulated in terms of concepts or preconceptions, yield experience concerning evident matters, which in turn forms the basis for conclusions about non-evident matters.

Ancient Theories of Soul Lorenz, Hendrik 2009

The question, I think you would agree, is whether assuming the existence of something (e.g. other people, atoms, etc.) makes a description more sensible and consistent than assuming they are, e.g., all strangely coherent sense-impressions on a disembodied mind.

Please Tell Me What “God” Means Sean 2007

Imagination, too, though its faculty of viewing and forming representations is founded upon the senses, nevertheless surveys sense-impressions without calling in Sense, not in the way of Sense-perception, but of Imagination.

Consolation of Philosophy 2007