The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 01 (of 11)
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And here I put an end to the third part of this discourse; in which I
have considered motion and magnitude by themselves in the abstract. The
fourth and last part, concerning the _phenomena of nature_, that is to
say, concerning the motions and magnitudes of the bodies which are parts
of the world, real and existent, is that which follows.
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PART IV.
PHYSICS,
OR THE PHENOMENA OF NATURE.
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CHAPTER XXV.
OF SENSE AND ANIMAL MOTION.
1. The connexion of what hath been said with that which followeth.—2.
The investigation of the nature of sense, and the definition of
sense.—3. The subject and object of sense.—4. The organs of
sense.—5. All bodies are not indued with sense.—6. But one phantasm
at one and the same time.—7. Imagination the remains of past sense,
which also is memory. Of sleep.—8. How phantasms succeed one
another.—9. Dreams, whence they proceed.—10. Of the senses, their
kinds, their organs, and phantasms proper and common.—11. The
magnitude of images, how and by what it is determined.—12. Pleasure,
pain, appetite and aversion, what they are.—13. Deliberation and
will, what.
[Sidenote: The connexion of what hath been said with that which
followeth.]