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Book I Chapter 51 · I.51.5.1–I.51.5.2
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p. 16225.1
⟨Διδύμου.⟩
Ἀριστοτέλους. Τὸ δὲ αἰσθητικόν, ὃ δὴ κοινῶς ἁπάντων τῶν ζῴων ἴδιον (αἰσθήσει γὰρ διαφέρειν τὸ ζῷον τοῦ φυτοῦ), πενταπλοῦν ἐοικέναι. Τοῦτο γὰρ τὸ μὲν ὅρασιν, τὸ δ᾽ ἀκοήν, τὸ δ᾽ ὄσφρησιν, τὸ δὲ γεῦσιν, τὸ δ᾽ ἁφήν.
5.2
Ὑπάρχειν δέ τινα καὶ σύνθετον αἴσθησιν, ἐν ᾗ τό τε φανταστικὸν πᾶν γίγνεσθαι καὶ ⟨τὸ⟩ μνημονευτικὸν καὶ τὸ δοξαστικόν, ὅπερ οὖν οὐδ᾽ ἄμοιρον τοῦ νοῦ τυγχάνειν. Αἰσθάνεσθαι δὲ ἡμᾶς παθούσης τι τῆς αἰσθήσεως.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 51
p. 16235.1 · The fivefold perceptive capacity
⟨Didymus.⟩
Aristotle. The perceptive capacity, which is the characteristic shared by all animals (for perception distinguishes an animal from a plant), appears to be fivefold. One part of it is sight, another hearing, another smell, another taste, another touch.1970
5.2 · Imagination, memory, and belief
There is also a certain composite perception, in which the whole capacity for forming images arises, together with ⟨the⟩ capacity for memory and the capacity for belief; the latter is therefore not without a share in intellect. We perceive when the perceptive faculty undergoes some affection.1971
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