Perception as a type of alteration according to Aristotle
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Knowledge. Perception. Sensible object. Soul and body.Abstract
This paper intends to clarify how perception knows the being according to Aristotle by treating a very controversial point: how perception discriminates its own objects and if this discrimination is strictly a physiological process or it is also an activity of the soul, and if it is also an activity of the soul, in which way the body’s physical alteration conjoined with a certain activity of the soul constitute perception.
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