animal ne voit plus ; il n y a plus vision, quoique tout ce qui est sensation subsiste , il n y a plus vision, parce qu il n y a plus perception. Le percevoir, et non le sentir, est donc le premier element de l'intelligence. La perception est partie de l'intelligence, car elle se perd avec l'intelligence, et par l'ablation du meme organe, les lobes ou hémispheres cérébraux; et la sensibilité n'en est point partie, puisqu'elle subsiste après la perte de l'intelligence et l'ablation des lobes ou hémispheres."
The following famous verse of the ancient philosopher
Epicharmus, proves that the ancients in general
recognized the intellectual nature of perception :
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(Mens videt, mens audit; ccetera surda et cœca.)
[1]
Plutarch in quoting this verse, adds :
[2]
(Greek characters) (guia affectio oculorum et aurium nullum affert sensum, intelligentia absente ).
Shortly before too he says :
(Greek characters) (Stratonis pliysici exstat ratiocinatio, qua "sine intelligentia sentiri omnino nihil posse " demonstrat.)
[3]
Again shortly after he says :
(Greek characters) (quars necesse est, omnia, quce sentiunt, etiam intelligere, siquidem intelligendo demum sentiamus)
[4]
A second verse of Epicharmus might be connected with this, which is quoted
by Diogenes Laertes (iii. 16) :
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- ↑ "It is the mind that sees and hears j all besides is deaf and blind." (Tr. Ad.)
- ↑ Plutarch, "De solert. animal." c. 3. " For the affection of our eyes and ears does not produce any perception, unless it be accompanied by thought." (Tr. Ad.)
- ↑ "Straton, the physicist, has proved that c without thinking it is quite impossible to perceive. " (Tr. Ad.)
- ↑ "Therefore it is necessary that all who perceive should also think, since we are so constituted as to perceive by means of thinking." (Tr. Ad.)
