sense-perceptions

For as soon as the word ˜man™ is uttered, immediately its impression also comes to mind by means of preconception, as a result of antecedent sense-perceptions.

Ancient Theories of Soul Lorenz, Hendrik 2009

To be such a subject is a sufficient (though not necessary) condition for having intrinsic value, and to be a subject-of-a-life involves, among other things, having sense-perceptions, beliefs, desires, motives, memory, a sense of the future, and a psychological identity over time.

Environmental Ethics Brennan, Andrew 2008

On this narrow reading Plato would have to offer an account of ordinary thought and talk, i.e., an account of concept acquisition and application, which claims that the concepts so deployed by most of us are derived from ordinary particulars and acquired through our conversations with one another and our sense-perceptions and beliefs about physical objects.

Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

It is a process that we, unlike other animals, are able to engage in it, because our souls include a rational element that has prior acquaintance with forms: “a soul that never [prenatally] saw what is true cannot take a human shape, since a human being must understand what is said by relation to a form that is reached from many sense-perceptions being collected into one by reasoning”

Plato on Friendship and Eros Reeve, C. D. C. 2007

Aristotle said that we cannot have memories of the present, and sense-perceptions of the past or future, yet that is precisely what speculative poetry can accomplish.

Notes on a Speculative Poetry | Goblin Mercantile Exchange 2006

Eighteenth century theorists, on the other hand, often identified emotions specifically with sense-perceptions.

17th and 18th Century Theories of Emotions Schmitter, Amy M. 2006

It is indeed evident from many considerations that sleep does not consist in the mere fact that the special senses do not function or that one does not employ them; and that it does not consist merely in an inability to exercise the sense-perceptions; for such is what happens in cases of swooning.

On Sleep and Sleeplessness 2002

We must now proceed to inquire into the cause why one sleeps and wakes, and into the particular nature of the sense-perception, or sense-perceptions, if there be several, on which these affections depend.

On Sleep and Sleeplessness 2002

From all this, then, the conclusion to be drawn is, that the dream is a sort of presentation, and, more particularly, one which occurs in sleep; since the phantoms just mentioned are not dreams, nor is any other a dream which presents itself when the sense-perceptions are in a state of freedom.

On Dreams Aristotle 2002

From all this, then, the conclusion to be drawn is, that the dream is a sort of presentation, and, more particularly, one which occurs in sleep; since the phantoms just mentioned are not dreams, nor is any other a dream which presents itself when the sense-perceptions are in a state of freedom.

On Dreams Aristotle 2002