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Theorem II. Any feel which feeling has not informed me of, is unknown…
Quote byAlexander Bryan Johnson · 1786–1867
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Physiology of the Senses: Or, How and what We See, Hear, Taste, Feel and Smell (1856), Part II. Of the Extent of Sensible Knowledge..
English (original)
Theorem II. Any feel which feeling has not informed me of, is unknown to me. Comments. 1. Words are sensibly intelligent to a man of only such words as he has experienced. 2. The intellectual signification of words discriminated from the sensible signification. 3. Intellectual intimations discriminated from sensible revelations.
— Alexander Bryan Johnson
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