Sensations Sentence Examples

The strange sensations within him remained.

His body was solid and strong, the sensations of his skin against hers and his scents intoxicating her.

She was lost for a moment in the sensations of his warm hand clasping hers.

She was trying hard to ignore the sensations in her body.

Intrigued by the sensations, she found herself unwilling to look away from him this time.

The sensations made her want to cry.

She closed her eyes, savoring the sensations, his scent and heated touch imprinted upon her mind.

His scent and heat, the warmth of his magic, the heady sensations of being so close to him … She concentrated on placing her feet and not on his body.

The sensations made him more restless.

Jessi fought the sensations, not wanting to lose control, especially to him.

When he lifted his head, her thoughts were too addled for her to focus on anything more than the sensations of the body against hers.

Yully closed her eyes, entranced by the sensations.

He relished the sensations of her hot mouth and soft skin, the scent of her arousal and the way her body molded against his.

She shivered at the sensations, desire blooming hot and fast within her.

The men around her were roused by the sensations.

Deidre struggled against the sensations.

Deidre ran her hands over the clothing in the wardrobe, gasping at the sensations.

She'd almost crossed the threshold where she was his; he felt her body start to arch under the sensations.

Suddenly, the sensations stopped.

Sense alone will never create orderly experience, as empiricism supposed; but a group of sensations reacted on by thought does so; it becomes, it is, a percept.

Incomprehensibly, we are dependent upon sensation; and incomprehensibly, we place our sensations in time and space.

She ate, her attention soon captured by the sensations of the airy omelet and melted cheese in her mouth.

Nothing made sense to her numbed mind, aside from the fragrant ocean, the fine sand that slid through her fingers like silk, and the warm-cool sensations caused by a combination of afternoon sun and sea breeze.

The sensations humbled him, and he thought again of Mansr's words, that he needed to be more than an exiled war planner.

Rhyn squinted towards the sound of his brother's voice, struggling to balance the sensations within him.

The colors and sensations of the immortal world were richer on the senses, but the mortal world seemed raw, untamed.

He let the sensations outside of his mind distract him while he checked his watch a few times.

The pinch came, followed by the strange sensations of energy flying within her.

Exploring the sensations of her body tentatively, she thought she heard the doorbell in the distance.

Tremors of the muscles more or less violent accompany the cold sensations, beginning with the muscles of the lower jaw (chattering of the teeth), and extending to the extremities and trunk.

Sensations, he argued, thus being representable by numbers, psychology may become an "exact" science, susceptible of mathematical treatment.

By reducing the human mind to a series of unrelated atomic sensations, this teaching destroyed the possibility of knowledge, and further, by representing man as a "being who is simply the result of natural forces," it made conduct, or any theory of conduct, unmeaning; for life in any human, intelligible sense implies a personal self which (1) knows what to do, (2) has power to do it.

Debussy has this in common with Strauss, that he too regards harmonies as pure physical sensations; but he differs from Strauss firstly in systematically refusing to regard them as anything else, and secondly in his extreme sensibility to harshness.

We have seen (in the articles on Harmony and Music) how harmonic music originated in just this habit of regarding combinations of sound as mere sensations, and how for centuries the habit opposed itself to the intellectual principles of contrapuntal harmony.

Much motor weakness and cutaneous sensations similar to those above described soon follow.

As cause of our sensations and ground of our belief in externality, he substituted for an unintelligible material substance an equally unintelligible operation of divine power.

Equally impossible was it thenceforth to assert the mediate or immediate certainty of material substance as the cause either of events in nature or of sensations in ourselves.

If the sensations corresponding to these neighbouring elements are thus aroused, we have no such perception as a pure tone, and what we regard as a pure tone is the mean of a group of sensations.

Smith, though recognizing the unpleasantness of beats, could not accept Sauveur's theory, and, indeed, it received no acceptance till it was rediscovered by Helmholtz, to whose investigations, recorded in his Sensations of Tone, we owe its satisfactory establishment.

For a full discussion see his Sensations of Tone, ch.

We may illustrate the first method by taking a case discussed by Helmholtz (Sensations of Tone, app. xvi.) where the two sources are reeds or pipes blown from the same wind-chest.

But inasmuch as the successive orders are proportional to A X 2 A 3, or µµ 2 µ 3, and X and µ are small, they are of rapidly decreasing importance, and it is not certain that any beyond those in equation (35) correspond to our actual sensations.

Aethers were invented for the planets to swim in, to constitute electric atmospheres and magnetic effluvia, to convey sensations from one part of our bodies to another, and so on, till all space had been filled three or four times over with aethers.

Since (following Protagoras) knowledge is solely of momentary sensations, it is useless to try, as Socrates recommended, to make calculations as to future pleasures, and to balance present enjoyment with disagreeable consequences.

Knowledge resides not in sense but in reason, which, on the suggestion of sensations of changing individuals, apprehends, or (to be precise) is reminded of, real universal forms, and, by first ascending from less to more general until it arrives at the form of good and then descending from this unconditional principle to the less general, becomes science and philosophy, using as its method the dialectic which gives and receives questions and answers between man and man.

Berkeley is compelled to see that an immediate perception is not a thing, and that what we consider permanent or substantial is not a sensation but a group of qualities, which in ultimate analysis means sensations either immediately felt or such as our experience has taught us would be felt in conjunction with these.

Our belief in the reality of a thing may therefore be said to mean assurance that this association in our minds between actual and possible sensations is somehow guaranteed.

Further, Berkeley's own theory would never permit him to speak of possible sensations, meaning by that the ideas of sensations called up to our minds by present experience.

Our belief in the permanence of something which corresponds to the association in our minds of actual and possible sensations means belief in the orderliness of nature; and that is merely assurance that the universe is pervaded and regulated by mind.

He therefore concluded that all we know from the data of psychological idealism is impressions or sensations, ideas, and associations of ideas, making us believe without proof in substances and causes, together with " a certain unknown, inexplicable something as the cause of our preceptions."

As to the origin of knowledge, Kant's position is that sense, outer and inner, affected by things in themselves, receives mere sensations or sensible ideas (Vorstellungen) as the matter which sense itself places in the a priori forms of space and time; that thereupon understanding, by means of the synthetic unity of apperception, " I think " - an act of spontaneity beyond sense, in all consciousness one and the same, and combining all my ideas as mine in one universal consciousness - and under a priori categories, or fundamental notions, such as substance and attribute, cause and effect, &c., unites groups of sensations or sensible ideas into objects and events, e.g.

This second position is a new form of metaphysical idealism, containing the supposition, which lies at the foundation of later German philosophy, that since understanding shapes the objects out of sensations, and since nature, as we know it, consists of such objects, " understanding, though it does not make, shapes nature," as well as our knowledge.

F His point was that there are no things in themselves different from minds or acting on them; that man is no product of things; nor does his thinking arise from passive sensations caused by things; nor is the end of his existence attainable in a world of things; but that he is the absolute free activity constructing his own world, which is only his own determination, his self-imposed limit, and means to his duty which allies him with God.

In order to prove this novel conclusion he started afresh from the Cartesian " I think " in the Kantian form of the synthetic unity of apperception acting by a priori categories; but instead of allowing, with all previous metaphysicians, that the Ego passively receives sensations from something different, and not contenting himself with Kant's view that the Ego, by synthetically combining the matter of sensations with a priori forms, partially constructs objects, and therefore Nature as we know it, he boldly asserted that the Ego, in its synthetic unity, entirely constructs things; that its act of spontaneity is not mere synthesis of passive sensations, but construction of sensations into an object within itself; and that therefore understanding makes as well as shapes Nature.

Kant's a priori synthesis of sensations into experience lies at the root of all German idealism.

The noumenal idealists of Germany assumed, like all psychological idealists, the unproved hypothesis that there is no sense of body, but there is a sense of sensations; and they usually accepted Kant's point, that to get from such sensations to knowledge there is a synthesis contributing mental elements beyond the mental data of sense.

He really accepted, like Kant, the hypothesis of a sense of sensations which led to the Kantian conclusion that the Nature we know in time and space is mere sensible appearances in us.

From antiquity men had applied themselves to determine the relations between the physical stimuli and the socalled " quality " of sensations.

But what was new was the application of this doctrine to the relations between the stimuli and the socalled " intensity " of sensations.

There are then, at least within the limits of moderate sensations, concomitant variations between stimuli and sensations, not only in " quality," as in the intervals of sounds, which were understood long ago, but also in " intensity "; and the discovery of the latter is the importance of Weber's and Fechner's law.

By the rules of induction from concomitant variations, we are logically bound to infer the realistic conclusion that outer physical stimuli cause inner sensations of sensible effects.

Proceeding on this suggestion, and misled by the mathematical expression which he had given to Weber's law, Fechner held that a conscious sensation, like its stimulus, consists of units, or elements, by summation and increments of which conscious sensations and their differences are produced; so that consciousness, according to this unnecessary assumption, emerges from an integration of unconscious shocks or tremors.

But he had also to endure countless objections to his mathematical statement of Weber's law, to his unnecessary assumption of units of sensation, and to his unjustifiable transfer of the law from physical to physiological stimuli of sensations, involving in his opinion his parallelistic view of body and mind.

Hence he deduced that whatever we know from sensations arranged in such a priori forms are objects of our own experience and mental phenomena.

He accepts the Kantian positions that unity of consciousness combines sensations by a priori synthesis, and that therefore all that natural science knows about matter moving in space is merely phenomena of outer sense; and he agrees with Kant that from these data we could not infer things in themselves by reason.

He agrees with Fechner that physical process of nerve and psychical process of mind are really the same psychophysical process as appearing on the one hand to an observer and on the other hand to one's own consciousness; and that physical phenomena only produce physical phenomena, so that those materialists and realists are wrong who say that physical stimuli produce sensations.

For what does it matter to metaphysics whether by association sensations suggest ideas, and so give rise to ideas of substance and causation a posteriori, or synthetic unity of consciousness combines sensations by a priori notions of substance and causation into objects which are merely mental phenomena of experience, when it is at once allowed by the followers of Hume and Kant alike that reason in any logical use has no power of inferring things beyond the experience of the reasoner?

He holds, like Hume, that nothing is real except our sensations and complexes of sensory elements; that the ego is not a definite, unalterable, sharply bounded unity, but its continuity alone is important; and that we know no real causes at all, much less real causes of our sensations; or, as he expresses it, bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of sensations form bodies.

But he limits this power of mind beyond sensations to mere ideas, and like Hume, and also like Lange, holds at last that, though we may form ideas beyond sensations or phenomena, we cannot know things.

Within the limits of these supposed sensory elements he accords more than many psychologists do to sense; because, following the nativists, Johannes Muller and Hering, he includes sensations of time and space, which, however, are not to be regarded as " pure intuitions " in the style of Kant.

But here again he identifies time and space with the sensations of them (Zeitempfindungen and Raumempfindungen).

On the assumption, then, that time and space are not objects, but systems, of sensations, he concludes that a body in time and space is " a relatively constant sum of touch-and-light-sensations, joined to the same time-and-space-sensations," that each man's own body is included in his sensations, and that to explain sensations by motions would only be to explain one set of sensations from another.

In short, sensations are elements and bodies complexes of these elements.

According to him, whatever inferences we make, certain or uncertain, are mere economies of thought, adapting ideas to sensations, and filling out the gaps of experience by ideas; whatever we infer, whether bodies, or molecules, or atoms, or space of more than three dimensions, are all without distinction equally provisional conceptions, things of thought; and " bodies or things are compendious mental symbols for groups of sensations - symbols which do not exist outside thought."

His philosophy, therefore, is that all known things are sensations and complexes of sensory elements, supplemented by an economy of thinking which cannot carry us beyond ideas to real things, or beyond relations of dependency to real causes.

But the idealists are only too glad to get any excuse for denying bodily substances and causes; and, while Leibnitz supplied them with the fancied analysis of material into immaterial elements, and Hume with the reduction of bodies to assemblages of sensations, Mach adds the additional argument that bodily forces are not causes at all.

Now, beneath these confusing phrases the point to be regarded is that, in Wundt's opinion, though we can receive sensations, we cannot think at all beyond sense, without some will.

Further, Wundt declares that the psychical compound of sensations, with which, according to him, we actually start, is not a complex sensation, but a compound idea; so that I am expected to believe that, when I hear the chord of D, I am not conscious of single sensations of D, F, A, and have only a compound idea of the chord - as if the hearing of music were merely a series of ideas!

It follows that every psychical compound into which temporal and spatial ideas enter must itself be an idea; and, as time at any rate accompanies all our sensations, it follows that every psychical compound of sensations, containing as it does, always temporal, if not also spatial, ideas, must be a compound idea, and not, as nativists suppose, Schuppe for instance, a compound sensation.

But he does not agree with Hume that mind is nothing but sensations, ideas, and associations, but with Kant, that there are higher combinations.

Hence, according to Wundt, the world we know is still unitary experience, distinguished, not separated, into subject and object, aggregates of ideas analysed by judgment and combined by inference, an object of idea elaborated into causes and substances by logical thinking, at most a world of our ideas composed out of our sensations, and arranged under our categories of our understanding by our inner wills, or a world of our ideating wills; but nothing else.

The predominant influence, on the whole, has been the phenomenalism of Hume, with its slender store of sensations, ideas and associations, and its conclusion that all we know is sensations without any known thinkers or any other known things.

But natural realism, as finally interpreted by Hamilton, was too dogmatic, too unsystematic, and too confused with elements derived from Kantian idealism to withstand the brilliant criticism of Mill's Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy (1865), a work which for a time almost persuaded us that Nature as we know it from sensations is nothing but permanent possibilities of sensation, and oneself only a series of states of consciousness.

Taken for granted the Kantian hypothesis of a sense of sensations requiring synthesis by understanding, and the Kantian conclusion that Nature as known consists of phenomena united by categories as objects of experience, Green argued, in accordance with Kant's first position, that knowledge, in order to unite the manifold of sensations by relations into related phenomena, requires unifying intelligence, or what Kant called synthetic unity of apperception, which cannot itself be sensation, because it arranges sensations; and he argued, in accordance with Kant's second position, that therefore Nature itself as known requires unifying intelligence to constitute the relations of its phenomena, and to make it a connected world of experience.

It is, according to him, something more than sensation, but less than perception; it is common to us with lower animals such as dogs; its operation consists in co-ordinating sensations into an aggregate which the subject throws back into space, and thereby has a consciousness of a total object outside itself, e.g.

Kant, applying them only to sensations, concluded that we can know nothing beyond by their means.

What Hume called repeated sequence Pearson calls " routine " of perceptions, and, like his master, holds that cause is an antecedent stage in a routine of perceptions; while he also acknowledges that his account of matter leads him very near to John Stuart Mill's definition of matter as " a permanent possibility of sensations."

Two psychological errors, among many others, constantly meet us in the history of idealism - the arbitrary hypothesis of a sense of sensations, or of ideas, and the intolerable neglect of logical inference.

He vacillated a great deal about our mode of perceiving the external world; but his final view (edition of Reid's works, note D*) consisted in supposing that (1) sensation is an apprehension of secondary qualities purely as affections of the organism viewed as ego; (2) perception in general is an apprehension of primary qualities as relations of sensations in the organism viewed as non-ego; while (3) a special perception of a so-called " secundo-primary " quality consists in " the consciousness of a resisting something external to our organism."

Secondly, there are so-called " subjective sensations," without any external object as stimulus, most commonly in vision, but also in touch, which is liable to formication, or the feeling of creeping in the skin, and to horripilation, or the feeling of bristling in the hair; yet, even in " subjective sensations," we perceive something sensible, which, however, must be within, and not outside, the organism.

Like Kant, he supposes that experience is concerned with sensations, distinguishes matter and form in sense, identifies time and space, eternal time and infinite space, with the formal element, and substitutes 'synthesis of sensations of touch and sight for association and inference, as the origin of our knowing such a solid material object as a bell.

Although he does not agree with Kant that either the formal element in sense or the synthesis of sensations is a priori, yet in very Kantian fashion, through not distinguishing between operation and object, he holds that, in synthetically combining sensations of touch and sight, we not only have a complex perception of a solid body, but also know this " object thought of " as itself the complex of these sensations objectified.

Not so; like Kant himself, Hodgson supposes something beyond; not, however, an unknown thing in itself causing sensations, but a condition, or sine qua non, of their existence, without being a cause of their nature.

It is realism - but inconsequent and inadequate realism, something like that of Spencer; according, indeed, more knowledge of the distinction between Nature as condition of sensations and God as condition of Nature; but very like in holding that all we know of natural forces is our perceptions.

Yet Martineau adopted, as his view of the limits of human intelligence, that Kant was right in making space and time a priori forms of sense, but wrong in limiting them to sensations.

He next assumes that we have no immediate experience of independent things - that sense perceives sensations, feelings, or ideas; while all else, e.g.

On this quite new assumption of a sense of sensations he deduces that, from a perception of these mental facts, we could not infer material facts, e.g.

On this assumption of a sense of sensations, but not of causality, he deduces that we could not from such data infer any particular kind of cause, or a bodily cause, e.g.

Certain impressions, the sensations of sight and touch, have in themselves the element of space, for these impressions (Hume skilfully transfers his statement to the points) have a certain order or mode of arrangement.

These are the fainter images produced by repeated sensations, the " ideas " resulting from previous " impressions "- sensations at second-hand as it were, which are stored up in memory, and which a general name serves to recall.

These bear witness to reality, not because we feel anything now, but because we felt it once; they are sensations registered in language, and again, if need be, translatable into immediate sensations or groups of sensation.

Reasoning can come in only to put sensations together, and to point out how they severally contribute to human welfare; it does not make them, and cannot alter them.

We must indeed accept our feelings; but we must also believe much which is not directly testified by sensation, if only it serves to explain phenomena and does not contravene our sensations.

He carried out the principle of association into the analysis of the complex emotional states, as the affections, the aesthetic emotions and the moral sentiment, all which he endeavoured to resolve into pleasurable and painful sensations.

Patients in whom, for purposes of diagnosis, it has been electrically excited, describe, as the initial effect of the stimulation, tingling and obscure but locally-limited sensations, referred to the part whose muscles a moment later are thrown into co-ordinate activity.

But all forms by which thought holds sensations in unity (the formative or synthetic elements of language) had their place assigned in a system where one leads up to and passes over into another.

This empirical groundwork of Aristotle's logic was accepted by the Epicureans, who enunciated most distinctly the fundamental doctrine that all sensations are true of their immediate objects, and falsity begins with subsequent opinions, or what the moderns call " interpretation."

Moreover, as we have shown, our primary judgments of sense are beliefs founded on sensations without requiring ideas, and are beliefs, not merely that something is determined, but that it is determined as existing; and, accordingly, our primary inferences from these sensory judgments of existence are inferences that other things beyond sense are similarly determined as existing.

When Berkeley has eliminated the literal materialism of Locke's metaphors of sense-perception, Hume finds no difficulty in accepting the sensations as present virtually in their own right, any nonsensible ground being altogether unknown.

Normally he thinks of what he calls phenomena no longer as psychological groupings of sensations, as " states of mind," but as things and events in a physical world howsoever constituted and apprehended.

On the other hand is a hypothetical dualism, according to which it is held that mind cannot bridge over the chasm so far as to know matter in itself, though it is compelled by its own laws of cause and effect to postulate matter as the origin, if not the motive cause, of its sensations.

It is thus that Fechner in his "day-view" of things sees in plants and planets the same fundamental "soul" as in us - that is, "one simple being which appears to none but itself, in us as elsewhere wherever it occurs self-luminous, dark for every other eye, at the least connecting sensations in itself, upon which, as the grade of soul mounts higher and higher, there is constructed the consciousness of higher and still higher relations."

Our ideas are copied from storedup sensations.

So, too, in the order of knowledge there is nothing but sense and the force of reason maintaining its tension and connecting sensations and ideas in their proper sequence.

Such facts as that dogs " hunt in dreams," make it likely that their minds are not only sensible to actual events, present and past, but can, like our minds, combine revived sensations into ideal scenes in which they are actors, - that is to say, they have the faculty of imagination.

The idea, inasmuch as it is a law of universal mind, which in particular minds produces aggregates of sensations called things, is a "determinant" (iripas ixov), and as such is styled "quantity" and perhaps "number" but the ideal numbers are distinct from arithmetical numbers.

He warned his hearers against the fires of concupiscence, anger, ignorance, birth, death, decay and anxiety; and taking each of the senses in order he compared all human sensations to a burning flame which seems to be something it is not, which produces pleasure and pain, but passes rapidly away, and ends only in destruction.3 Accompanied by his new disciples, the Buddha walked on to Rajagaha, the capital of King Bimbisara, who, not unmindful of their former interview, came out to welcome him.

Sensations, or the facts of the sensibility, are necessary; we do not impute them to ourselves.

I thus reach an objective impersonal world of forces which corresponds to the variety of my sensations.

The same criticism is even more emphatically applicable to the influence of a not-self, or world of forces, corresponding to our sensations, and the cause of them.

Causality might tell us that a cause there is of sensation somewhere and of some sort; but that this cause is a force or sum of forces, existing in space, independently of us, and corresponding to our sensations, it could never tell us, for the simple reason that such a notion is not supposed to exist in our consciousness.

It was by suppressing, through such self-torture, the influence on his soul of all sensations that the Jain could obtain salvation.

But though the simple quality of the subject or soul is beyond knowledge, we know what actually happens when it is in connexion with other's reals, for its self-preservations then are what we call sensations.

And these sensations are the sole material of our knowledge; but they are not given to us as a chaos but in definite groups and series, whence we come to know the relations of those reals, which, though themselves unknown, our sensations compel us to posit absolutely.

In phenomena we distinguish matter, which is given by sense, and form, which is the law of the order of sensations.

Sensations formed by space and time compose the world of appearance, and this when treated by the understanding, according to logical rules, is experience.

The sensations-- and the moment of peace he'd been denied for thousands of years-- made him uncomfortable.

His skin and senses crawled with the sensations of being surrounded by vamps.

Deidre didn't understand how to balance the two sensations, the physical need that made her want to drink more of him and beg him to make love to her again, and the inability to believe her fate was at the side of the Dark One.

She groaned at the sensations he caused, soon drowning in the scent of blood and need to feel him inside her.

His scent and heat, the warmth of his magic, the heady sensations of being so close to him … She concentrated on placing her feet and not on his body.

She shuddered, enthralled by the sensations running through her.

She'd felt the weird sensations before … Shadow world.

He loved war, the all consuming sensations of battle from the metallic scent of weapons and blood to the burn of his muscles as he fought beyond his normal capabilities.

He writes about it sensitively, with due modesty and a sensible regard for the precise chronology, the details, the sensations.

The phrase seemed to me to capture the intense and direct physical sensations which are such a key part of playing the clavichord.

Visual sensations must not be confused with visual ' perceptions ', in which interpretation plays an overwhelmingly dominant rôle.

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An infant's actions are purely impulsive reactions to the sensations and emotions he is experiencing.

Gradually the surrounds atmosphere seemed to fill with sensations, and grew luminous.

The sensations of cold metal adds to the intense orgasm brought on by quickly pulling these beads out at the point of orgasm.

Then suddenly you smile as a wine tickles the palate with its joyous sensations.

Once the mental shock of moving unsupported through the air was over, his sensations ceased to be unpleasant, became very speedily pleasurable.

Maybe, behind the fleeting world of sensations, there is an ultimate reality.

I did my best to ignore the fact that my bodily sensations were no longer agreeable.

It involves human assessment of tactile sensations, with the object hidden from the assessor's view.

Around 10 per cent of patients will experience some unpleasant sensations of the face which may affect the quality of life.

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This will give sensations which commonly will be a slight tingle, or a sense of fullness or pressure, or a dull ache.

Perception is sensation caused by a present affection of the external extremities of the nerves; memory is sensation caused, in the absence of present excitation, by dispositions of the nerves which are the result of past experiences; judgment is the perception of relations between sensations, and is itself a species of sensation, because if we are aware of the sensations we must be aware also of the relations between them; will he identifies with the feeling of desire, and therefore includes it as a variety of sensation.

Though stimuli are composite, sensations are not.

That which we perceive is from the outset an apprehended fact - that is to say, it cannot be analysed into isolated elements (socalled sensations) which, as such, are not constituents of consciousness at all, but exists from the first as a synthesis of relations in a consciousness which keeps distinct the "self" and the various elements of the "object," though holding all together in the unity of the act of perception.

Lewes and others the doctrine of "cerebral reflex" was suggested, whereby actions, at first achieved only by incessant attention, became organized as conscious or subconscious habits; as for instance in the playing on musical or other instruments, when acts even of a very elaborate kind may directly follow the impulses of sensations, conscious adaptation and the deliberate choice of means being thus economized.

All our sensations are relative, and acquaint us, not with things as they are, but only with the impressions that things produce upon us.

This first position is psychological idealism in a new form and supported by new reasons; for, if experience derives its matter from mental sensations and its form from mental synthesis of sensations, it can apprehend nothing but mental objects of sense, which, according to Kant, are sensible ideas having no existence outside our thought, not things in themselves; or phenomena, not noumena.

The conclusion of his epistemology is that we start with ourselves positing subjective sensations - e.g.

The metaphysics resulting from this epistemology is that the socalled thing in itself is not a cause of our sensations, but a product of one's own thinking, a determination of the Ego, a thing known to the Ego which constructs it.

But whereas Fechner and Paulsen hold that all physical processes are universally accompanied by psychical processes which are the real causes of psychical sensations, Riehl rejects this paradox of universal parallelism in order to fall into the equally paradoxical hypothesis that something or other, which is neither physical not psychical, causes both the physical phenomena of matter moving in space and the psychical phenomena of mind to arise in us as its common effects.

In the first place, he displays in its most naked form the common but unproved idealistic paradox of a sense of sensations, according to which touch apprehends not pressure but a sensation of pressure, sight apprehends not colour but a sensation of colour, and there is no difference between the sensory operation and the sensible object apprehended by any sense, even within the sentient organism.

He supposes that we have no sensations of space and time, as the nativists suppose, but that, while local signs give us spatial ideas, feelings of expectation are temporal signs giving us temporal ideas, and that these ideas enter into the psychical compound, which is our actual starting-point.

He prefixes to the ordinary associations, which descend from Hume, an association which he calls fusion (Verschmelzung), and supposes that it is a fundamental process of fusing sensations with spatial and temporal ideas into a compound idea.

No one knows, however, just what her sensations are.

If you had called these sensations respectively BLACK and WHITE, he would have adopted them as readily; but he would mean by BLACK and WHITE the same things that he means by SWEET and SOUR.

It is true, on the other hand, that in her descriptions, she is best from the point of view of art when she is faithful to her own sensations; and this is precisely true of all artists.

At the head of the table, where the honored guests sat, everyone seemed to be in high spirits and under the influence of a variety of exciting sensations.

Not at all expecting so loud a report, Pierre shuddered at the sound and then, smiling at his own sensations, stood still.

The one thing he now desired with his whole soul was to get away quickly from the terrible sensations amid which he had lived that day and return to ordinary conditions of life and sleep quietly in a room in his own bed.

It involves human assessment of tactile sensations, with the object hidden from the assessor 's view.

It consists of 3 rings which encircle your cock and balls and keeps them in a nice grip of pleasurable sensations.

There are ideas for building a fire on a damp blustery day or how to bring nature into your home to increase tactile sensations.

Symptoms, she argued, were not just objective reports of deficits of function or uncomfortable sensations.

The volunteer is asked to verbalize any feelings or sensations which they might experience during the test.

Slippery elm tea may be suggested as a way to coat the esophagus and reduce the burning sensations.

Many people end up in the emergency room quite sure they're having a heart attack because the bodily sensations associated with panic and anxiety disorder mimic a heart attack.

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While some of the symptoms like the pleasurable sensations might feel good at first, methamphetamine is a dangerous drug that can be difficult to quit and can impair brain function for a time long after use.

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Electric shock sensations, which may feel like a rubber band snapping in the layers of tissue between the skin and muscles.

This neurological disorder is known for the uncomfortable and sometimes painful sensations in the legs that cause a burning, tugging or crawling sensation.

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Fortunately, these sensations disappear with continued treatment.

Since there are numerous reasons why you could be experiencing these painful sensations, a doctor is often the best resource in determining what is behind the pain you are feeling.

The system sends signals from the brain and spinal cord to the different parts of the body-and amazingly, as people sleep, the central nervous system plays a big part in the many sensations that are expereinced in dreams.

In the same respect, it is possible to experience the sensations of smell, taste, and sound during dreams.

These sensations are more difficult to remember than what people see visually, but that doesn't mean they aren't occurring.

These sensations are all completely normal and are not necessarily a cause for any alarm.

Busch Gardens theme park Tampa offers a wide range of dining options, from gourmet meals to quick snacks and from barbeque and fajita wraps to filet mignon and seafood sensations.

Thrill seekers marveled at the open air ride experience, new riding sensations, and unique thrills the inverted coaster could offer.

Popular sensations come and go, and it's often difficult to know how long certain hits will remain at the top.

The patient may feel aching or pain in parts of the body affected by inadequate blood supply, such as aching in the legs while walking or cramping sensations in the abdomen after meals.

The child has tingling or other unusual sensations followed by numbness in certain parts of the body.

When a narcotic medication stimulates these receptor proteins, the person typically experiences intense sensations of euphoria or well-being.

Some people become convinced that their itch is caused by a parasite; this conviction is often linked to burning sensations in the tongue and may be caused by a major psychiatric disorder.

Numbness and tingling are decreased or abnormal sensations caused by altered sensory nerve function.

Sensations such as these, which occur without any associated stimulus, are called paresthesias.

Restless legs syndrome (RLS)-A disorder in which the patient experiences crawling, aching, or other disagreeable sensations in the calves that can be relieved by movement.

Normally, sensations of pain and fatigue signal that it is time to rest.

Nerves are examined for sensory (feeling sensations) and motor (movement) function.

The term refers to repeated unwanted or uncomfortable sensations, usually in the child's throat, eyes, or shoulders.

Injected contrast can cause sensations of heat or cold through the body.

The taste sensations for the front two-thirds of the tongue are sent to the brain via the seventh cranial nerve.

The various swellings and enlargements throughout the body may press on nerves, causing sensations of local tingling or burning and sometimes result in muscle weakness.

Some report various physical sensations, including tightness in the chest, tingling sensations, tremor, hearing echoes, or a feeling of pressure inside the head.

Pain management covers a number of methods to prevent, reduce, or stop pain sensations.

Phantom sensations may begin immediately after the amputation, or they may develop months or years later.

Other women find relief through visualization, concentrating on the pain as a particular color, and gaining control of the sensations.

Side effects are usually mild, but may include headaches, nosebleeds, and unpleasant taste sensations.

Akathisia-restlessness and a desire to move to relieve uncomfortable sensations.

Sensations may include a feeling of crawling, itching, stretching, or creeping, usually in the legs.

Side effects may include headaches, nosebleeds, and unpleasant taste sensations.

Children with atopic dermatitis often have a lowered threshold of sensitivity to itching, which means that they feel itching sensations more intensely than children without the disorder.

These symptoms might include nausea or vomiting, odd sensations of the abdomen, changes in appetite, and fatigue, among others.

Lower dosages of anesthetic take away pain and other sensations without diminishing muscle control.

Local anesthesia is injected into the skin or muscle to block sensations in the area near nerve endings.

If you've chosen to have an epidural, the sensations will not be as strong.

This does not mean that movements stop completely, just that you may feel rolling sensations rather than active kicking movements.

The intense sensations are strong enough to cause the water to break, but contractions may begin before or after the water breaks.

Now tennis sensations, like Maria Sharapova, don't think twice about wearing gold feathered earrings.

Many toys have become overnight sensations but have disappeared from the stores just as quickly as they appeared.

Third party designers have even taken the design and created such sensations as "Ghettopoly" and "Dogopoly".

Absorb the deep sensations of each moment, until you have contemplated one for each finger.

These feelings and bodily sensations are so intense at times that you think of little else.

The condition may cause burning and stinging sensations.

In fact, it's often difficult for him to separate his feelings and sensations from others, especially his lover's emotions.

Most enjoy the gentle lapping sensations and the feel of cool water.

Artistic Sensations offers canopy bedding in sizes from baby to queen.

Now it's time to take stock of the sensations you had during the session.

They believe that many people who believe they are traveling outside of their bodies are simply being fooled by sensations of their bodies and subconscious manifestations of their minds.

In these examples, scientists used visual illusions and physical sensations to "trick" the mind into believing that it existed within a body other than its own.

Physical sensations such as a ringing in the ears, hearing voices and even music have been reported.

People sometimes experience being paralyzed, hearing a buzzing sound, sensing a presence in the room or many other sensations that can be unnerving to someone unfamiliar with the process.

Some people notice that when their psychic abilities are accurate, they actually feel sensations in their stomach or a so-called gut feeling.

Afterward, take time to reflect on your correct responses and any physical sensations that accompanied them.

This barrage of sensations can over-stimulate the empath and even manifest as erratic behavior.

The feelings and even physical sensations an empath picks up from another person can be stronger than her own.

Many empaths find a physical solution to the flood of emotions and other sensations by living in sparsely populated areas to have a facsimile of a “normal” life.

Following in a long line of pop sensations who called General Hospital home, Ricky Martin of Menudo fame began Living in La Vida Loca Port Charles style in 1994 as Miguel Morez, the first love of Sonny's beloved Lily.

For example, piercing can change the sensations felt during sexual contact.

It can be found over the counter at pharmacies and big box stores, and is not reported to cause any pain or stinging sensations.

You may even find yourself feeling both sensations simultaneously.

Hypersensitivity to sensations such as extremely loud sounds, bright lights, or certain textures can also be a problem.

Exposure to the right toys can help your child have fun while integrating new sensations into her daily life.

With so many options at your disposal, make sure to select items that provide a wide range of tactile sensations.

They act like a naturally analgesic, making you feel those pleasant sensations associated with exercise.

Bicyclists experience the landscape first hand, enjoying many of the pleasant sensations of slower travel.

If you exercise intensely or for longer periods of time, you can enjoy the pleasant sensations of the runner's high.

These Jonas Brothers lyrics will give you all the help you need to sing along with these teen heart throb singing sensations.

Maurice Starr was the man who had put together early to mid-1980s group New Edition, who became sensations for R&B twinged, poppy numbers.

Stardom started on YouTube for Bieber, but unlike a lot of YouTube sensations was able to parlay his online splash into real world success.

Regardless of if you are a fan of the new sensations Twilight or True Blood; a fan of vampire literature from Ann Rice or Bram Stoker; or even if you are a history buff there is a form of vampire art for you.

If you can't decide what to eat, you can start with a mezza platter to get your senses warmed up and experience a variety of taste sensations.

She blinked rapidly, startled by the sensations going through her.

Muddling through the sensations, she sensed her father's magic.

She accepted Jonny's hand rather than Xander's and closed her eyes to the cold sensations of Transporting.

She savored the sensations of his hot, wet mouth and the buzz she got feeding from him.

Mesmerized by the sensations, her confusion and his direct gaze, she had to concentrate hard to register what he said.

Lost in the heady sensations, Deidre wriggled and strained beneath him.

The sensations within her churned and burned in a way that demanded she do something.

She wasn't expecting the intensity of sensations in the human world.

The buildings blocked the sun, and the barrage of sensations overwhelmed her.

Unable to sleep, Deidre paced, trying hard to shake the sensations clouding her head.

She hadn't been able to wake up, and the sensations felt too real.

The strange energy hummed through her again, and she became aware of new sensations she'd never noticed with anyone else.

She held nothing back as he drove her to sensations and heights she'd never imagined.

The sensations of freefalling made her stomach turn.

She'd felt the weird sensations before … Shadow world.

His examination didn't last long, and the sensations faded.

Emotions, random sensations, memories, disjointed images.

The sensations assured her the surreal situation was really happening.

The sensations stabilized and then dissipated.

She wanted to be angry at him but was too dazed, too surprised at the sensations running through her.

The initial sensations passed, and he breathed deeply, finally able to focus as his body adjusted to the feel of the energy flowing through him.

The warm-cool sensations swept past her.

There were no sounds, no sights underground, no sensations aside from the scent of his own fear and the feeling of earth closing in around him.

In ethics empiricism begins by recognizing that man possesses sensations, and so is liable to pleasures and pains.

He tells us how from his youth he pursued physical and psychological studies, how at the age of fifteen he read Kant's Prolegomena, and later rejected the thing in itself, and came to the conclusion that the world with his ego is one mass of sensations.

His work on Sensations of Tone (1862) may well be termed the principle of physiological acoustics.

And the sense data are, he finds, partly (a) revelations of external things themselves in their mathematical relations, and partly (b) sensations, boundless in variety, which are somehow awakened in us through contact and collision with things relatively to their mathematical relations.

He shows elaborately how the pleasures and pains of " imagination, ambition, self-interest, sympathy, theopathy, and the moral sense " are developed out of the elementary pleasures and pains of sensation; by the coalescence into really complex but apparently single ideas of the " miniatures " or faint feelings which the repetition of sensations contemporaneously or in immediate succession tends to produce in cohering groups.

His theory assumes the correspondence of mind and body, and is applied pari passu to the formation of ideas from sensations, and of " compound vibratiuncules in the medullary substance " from the original vibrations that arise in the organ of sense.2 The same general view was afterwards developed with much vigour and clearness on the psychical side alone by James Mill in his Analysis of the Human Mind.

And yet that these forms are "given" to us, as truly as sensations are, follows beyond doubt when we consider that we are as little able to control the one as the other.

If we were without sensations, i.e.

You can never imagine how I felt when I stood in the presence of Niagara until you have the same mysterious sensations yourself.

Her recollections of the sensations of smell are very vivid.

He kissed her long and light, enjoying the sensations of her body as she became aroused.

She dropped her hand and prayed the sensations within her left.

The sensations unsettled him, but he forced himself to turn away.

The sensations surprised her.

The sensations whipped through him, reminding him how human he really was.

Unable to understand or control the strange sensations, she tried to help right herself as the hands gripping her ribcage steadied her.