All agree that it is not an object of sense, and there remains no conclusion but that it is nonsense !
In contrast to the purported single object of Sense-certainty the object of Perception is taken as instantiating general properties: it is "a thing with many properties" (Phen: §112).
However, since knowledge of such an object is admittedly confused or incomplete, as it is an object of sense, the faculty of reason is needed in order to yield distinct knowledge of it.
And the identification of what becomes with sensibles (in this case the universe as an object of sense) is readily made at 28b7 c2 (see 5. in the argument below).
He thought that intrinsic goodness was a real property of things, even though (like the number two) it does not exist in time and is not the object of sense experience.
When he says that "what can perceive is potentially such as the object of sense is actually" (De Anima ii 5, 418a3-4), Ariseemse seems to commit himself to a claim to the effect that a sense organ in one way or another becomes like its object when it perceives.
Note, however, that this account does not necessarily require that the perceptible form needs to be present in the medium in the same way as it is present in the object of sense or in the sense-organ (the relationship between these latter two modes of the existence of the perceptible form is a further issue of contention, see the entry on Aristotle: Psychology).
If the objects of sense are easily changed and never stand still, and the organs of perception are dull and easily receive false impressions; and the poor soul itself is an exhalation from blood.
We have, therefore, to examine discursive-reason and the ordinary mental action upon objects of sense, and enquire whether these have the one seat with the affections and experiences, or perhaps sometimes the one seat, sometimes another.
In his A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Part I (1710), he brought all objects of sense, including tangibles, within the mind; he rejected material substance, material causes, and abstract general ideas; he affirmed spiritual substance; and he answered many objections to his theory and drew the consequences, theological and epistemological.
In effect he said to his readers, "You may hold, if you will, that objects of sense have only an 'in-and-out' existence, that they are created and annihilated with every turn of man's attention; but do not father those views on me.
