There was an echo in one of the footnotes to The Waste Land, when TS Eliot quotes the now largely forgotten idealist philosopher FH Bradley: "My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings.
Howe despised the extremism of the Lockean claim that babies are born into a state of tabula rasa, believing instead that the mind is composed of various "faculties" that, far from being dependent only on external sensations to realize their powers, take an active role in their own maturation.
While making love, you focus on the external sensations that occur without getting distracted by the mundane thoughts that stray into the mind.
If the brain's hierarchical organization begins to breakdown, there may be an ensuing confusion over, among other things, what are internal and external sensations.
The loss of proper, external musical sensation does heighten my sense of what Beethoven arrived at in those late String Quartets, living entirely for an inner world and creating within it an edifice in which you tend to wrestle away the superficial and the unnecessary.
(Let's refer to these putative sensations as sensations, though, strictly speaking, we cannot yet be using the term in a way that presupposes being caused by external sense organs).
Like Descartes, Le Grand used the example of the sword wounding the body to illustrate the non-resemblance or dissimilitude of the relations between external objects and sensations, and sensations and ideas.
Those ships even take on a vague resemblance to gold rush towns themselves, their crowds in sharp contrast with the glacial wildness of their surroundings, their quickly formed societies, detached from the external world, seeking sensation and pleasure, and just as quickly dissolving after the rush has ended.
Some psychologists have characterized percepts as typically related to external objects and sensations as more nearly subjective, personal, internally localized experiences.
First of all, he argued that the very concept of a "thing in itself," understood as a mind-independent, external "cause" of sensations, is indefensible on Critical grounds.
