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6. The Sensitive
11.6 Questions about the Sixth
Subject, or the Sensitive Faculty
98. Question: are hunger and thirst
sensed by touch, or by taste? We
answer that they are sensed most by the
sense which has the greatest affinity to
the object.
99. Does taste sense hunger and thirst
with instinct and appetite, like sight
senses colored things with color? Go to
the second species of rule E.
100. Question: what makes the sensitive
faculty sense its objects? We answer that
each particular sense senses its objects
through specific forms, just like a crystal
placed on a colored object is colored by it.
101. Does the sensitive have punctual and
linear quantity? We answer that the
sensitive attains its object as quickly from
afar as from up close.
102. As the sensitive has one common
sense, does it also have one common
power, instinct and appetite?
103. Question: what is the sensitive
faculty?
104. With what things is the sensitive
common and particular?
105. What does the sensitive faculty live
and feed on?
106. Can the sensitive faculty be sensed?
Go to the subject of the sensitive.
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