Sense


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1 The nature of sense.
2 The power of sense as distinct from the power of understanding or reason.
3 Sense and intellect in relation to becoming and being, particulars and universals.
4 The distinction between perception or intuition and judgment or reasoning, the transcendental forms of intuition.
5 Sense perception as a primary function of the mind or understanding, sensations as received impressions, the distinction between sensation and reflection, ideas and notions, percepts and concepts.
6 Sensitivity in relation to the grades of life.
7 The differentiation of animals from plants in terms of sensitivity.
8 The degrees of sensitivity in the animal kingdom, the genetic order of the several senses.
9 Comparisons of human and animal sensitivity.
10 The analysis of the power of sense, its organs and activities.
11 The anatomy and physiology of the senses, the special sense organs, nerves, brain.
12 The distinction between the exterior and interior senses.
13 Enumeration of the exterior senses, their relation and order.
14 Enumeration of the interior senses, their dependence on the exterior senses.
15 The activity of the exterior senses.
16 The functions of the exterior senses, the nature and origin of sensations.
17 The attributes of sensation, intensity, extensity, affective tone, the psychophysical law.
18 The classification of sensations or sense-qualities, proper and common sensibles, primary and secondary qualities.
19 The distinction between sensation and perception, the accidental sensible, complex ideas of substance.
20 Sensation and attention, preperception and apperception, the transcendental unity of apperception.
21 The activity of the interior senses.
22 The functions of the common sense, discrimination, comparison, association, collation or perception.
23 Memory and imagination as interior powers of sense.
24 The estimative or cogitative power, instinctive recognition of the harmful and beneficial.
25 The relation of sense to emotion, will, and movement, the conception of a sensitive appetite.
26 The character of sensitive knowledge.
27 Comparison of sensitive with other forms of knowledge.
28 The object of sense perception, the evident particular fact, judgments of perception and judgments of experience.
29 The relation of sense and the sensible, the subjectivity or objectivity of sense-qualities.
30 The limit, accuracy, and reliability of sensitive knowledge, the fallibility of the senses.
31 The erroneous interpretation of sense-data, the problem of judgments based on sensation.
32 Error in sense perception, illusions and hallucinations.
33 The contribution of the senses to scientific or philosophical knowledge.
34 Sensation as the source or occasion of ideas, the role of memory or reminiscence, the construction of complex ideas, the abstraction of universal concepts.
35 Sense-experience as the origin of inductions.
36 The dependence of understanding or reason upon sense for knowledge of particulars, verification by appeal to the senses.
37 The role of sense in the perception of beauty, the beautiful and the pleasing to sense, sensible and intelligible beauty.


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