14.3 · Being unnoticed is not forgetting

“But do not take my saying ‘to have escaped notice’ as though I were speaking of the occurrence of forgetting. Forgetting is the departure of memory, whereas in the case now under discussion memory has not yet arisen. It is absurd to speak of losing something that neither exists nor has yet come into existence. Is it not?”

“Certainly.”

“Then change only the terms.”

“How?”

“Instead of saying that something has escaped the soul’s notice when the soul is unaffected by the body’s shakings, call what you now name ‘forgetting’ ‘absence of sensation.’”

“I understand.”¹²¹³

14.4 · A shared movement

“When soul and body are jointly involved in a single affection and are jointly moved, you would speak appropriately by calling this movement sensation.”

“What you say is entirely true.”

“Do we now understand, then, what we mean to call sensation?”¹²¹⁴

15 · In the same work: pleasure mingled with pain

In the same work.

Body without soul, soul without body, and both together in their affections are full of pleasure mingled with pains.¹²¹⁵