Because historical knowledge is based in experience, Wolff believes that it is through the faculty of sense that humans gain historical knowledge.
Wolff divides the human mind into two basic faculties: the faculty of sense and imagination, on the one hand, and the faculty of understanding and reason, on the other.
The fifth discourse of this book contains the thesis that "a certain small gland in the middle of the ventricles" is the seat of the sensus communis, the general faculty of sense (AT VI 129, not in CSM I).
On Gödel's version of the view, we acquire knowledge of abstract objects in much the same way that we acquire knowledge of concrete physical objects; more specifically, just as we acquire information about physical objects via the faculty of sense perception, so we acquire information about abstract objects by means of a faculty of mathematical intuition.
Thus, for Rosmini, the human being is a knowing and feeling subject, having within itself a principle which, formed by the light of being, knows and reacts to what it knows through the faculties of intellect and will, and feels and reacts to what it feels through the faculties of sense and instinct.
The realistic description of the sumptuous banquet in B1 and the wide range of Xenophanes' reported geographical and geological interests all sit poorly with an Eleatic "rationalism" that would dismiss all information gained through our faculties of sense and construct on the basis of reason alone a view of "what is" as a motionless, changeless and eternal unity.
But it differs from the faculties of sense-perception insofar as it apprehends non-sensible properties, or intentiones, particularly those that have some value pertinent to the apprehending subject, such as the dangerousness of the wolf to a sheep, or the usefulness of straw to a nesting bird.
On the other hand our natural affections, in particular benevolence, account fully for our moral motivation and our faculty of moral sense accounts fully for our ability to make an assessment of actions whether our own or others'.
Proclus distinguishes between the following faculties of soul: sense perception, imagination (phantasia), opinion, discursive thought, and intellection.
Different Buddhist schools, however, held different positions on the distinctive nature of perceptual experience, and on the specific roles of the sense faculties and status of sense objects in it.
Doetsch says that he tries to maintain a lab culture that provides technicians, students, postdocs, and research faculty a sense of "ownership" of their projects and to give the message everyone is making a significant contribution to the research enterprise, regardless of their specific title or role.
