The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.
At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.
It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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