Sentence examples for objects of sense from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

However, he apparently recognized an epistemological problem for an empiricist philosophy that nonetheless regards the objects of sense as unreal.

And the view that guides the comings and goings of ordinary life is naïve realism, which assumes that reality consists simply of the objects of sense perception.

For as it belongs in all cases to one and the same science to deal with correlated subjects-one and the same science, for instance, deals with sensation and with the objects of sense-and as therefore the intelligent soul and the objects of intellect, being correlated, must belong to one and the same science, it follows that natural science will have to include the whole universe in its province.

All agree that it is not an object of sense, and there remains no conclusion but that it is nonsense !

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.