Concept
Sense
Overview
physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception
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But the perspectives of the sense-data provided by the spatial relations are the specific relations whereby the external contemporary things are to this extent part of our experience. These contemporary organisms, thus introduced as ‘objects’ into experience, include the various organs of our body, and the sense-data are then called bodily feelings. The bodily organs, and those other external things which make…
Alfred North Whitehead, Symbolism, its meaning and effect
Names Sense several times; the author is tied to Sense in the knowledge graph.
This logical difference, important as it is, is not very relevant to our present problem; and it will be convenient to regard data of perception as included among sense-data for the purposes of this paper. It is to be observed that the particulars which are constituents of a datum of perception are always sense-data in the strict sense.
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
The chapter “II. CHARACTERISTICS OF SENSE-DATA” is titled for Sense; names Sense several times.
Physical objects are the ordinary objects which we perceive when our senses are not cheated, such as chairs, tables and trees. In a way physical objects have more insistent perceptive power than sense-objects. Attention to the fact of their occurrence in nature is the first condition for the survival of complex living organisms.
Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
Names Sense several times; the author is tied to Sense in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Sense
- Carneades
- Heraclitus
- Ibn Hazm
- John Locke
- Arcesilaus
- Xenocrates
- Thomas Reid
- Umaswati
- Chrysippus
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Edmund Husserl
- Maine de Biran
- Lacydes of Cyrene
- Kieran Egan (philosopher)
Related ideas
- Cognition
- Stress (biology)
- Action potential
- Mind–body dualism
- Light
- Information
- Functionalism (philosophy of mind)
- Materialism
- Organism
- Motion
- Neuron
- Visual perception
- Proprioception
- Nervous system
- Photon
- Bat
- Perception
- Sense data
- Rat
- Snake
- Visual cortex
- William Shakespeare
- Katha Upanishad
- Thought
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Aesthetics.