PHIL 200 Lecture 22: Phil 200 Aristotle de anima notes Last Day
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424a perception is to be acted on in some way the thing is making the perceived thing like itself we do not perceive things that are the same as ourselves sense or sense medium (ratio) sense: sense organ. Sense medium: skin blend of tangible qualities. Sensible are different sorts other than themselves and other than you. Sense is receptive o fthe sensible forms without the matter. Its white (cid:373)ade of wood its hard et(cid:272) that"s what we se(cid:374)se. Essence in virtue of which each is said to be. To become like is to take on sensible form without the matter. Without the matter: without the matter of the sensible object being taken on by the sense, without the matter of the sensible object even acting on the sense, without re-enmattering the sensible form in the sense"s (cid:373)atter. The matter is irrelevant: what the sensible qualities belong to is irrelevant.
