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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism.
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.
In our will, there lives something which is perpetually observing us inwardly. It is easy to look upon this inner spectator as something intended to be taken pictorially; the spiritual investigator knows it to be a reality, just as sense-perceptible objects are realities.
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.
Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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