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6. The Sensitive
6. The Sixth Subject, or the Sensitive
Power
The principles and the rules are in the
sensitive power in a specific way. One of
its powers is sight, hearing is another etc.
And this is mainly due to two properties,
namely instinct and appetite. Here is its
definition: the sensitive is the power
whose proper function is to sense things.
The sensitive power causes objects to be
sensed with its own specific principles
and rules. It is general throughout the
common sense, and particular in each
particular sense. On account of the
common sense it has common
correlatives, and it has particular
correlatives for the particular senses. The
sensitive lives on the vegetative life in
which it is rooted, connected and planted
just like the vegetative in the elementative.
The sensitive senses objects with all the
senses; for instance, it senses colored
objects through sight, and voices through
hearing, by means of the affatus that gives
things names. Without the affatus, the
hearing cannot sense a voice. And here
the intellect realizes that the affatus is a
sense.
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