But since we have, in our work On the Soul, treated of presentation,and the faculty of presentation is identical with that ofsense-perception, though the essential notion of a faculty ofpresentation is different from that of a faculty ofsense-perception; and since presentation is the movement set up by asensory faculty when actually discharging its function, while adream appears to be a presentation (for a presentation which occurs insleep-whether simply or in some particular way-is what we call adream): it manifestly follows that dreaming is an activity of ...

  So much at least is plain on all these points, viz. that the facultyby which, in waking hours, we are subject to illusion when affected bydisease, is identical with that which produces illusory effects insleep. So, even when persons are in excellent health, and know thefacts of the case Microsoft Office 2010...

WE must, in the next place, investigate the subject of the dream,and first inquire to which of the faculties of the soul it presentsitself, i.e. whether the affection is one which pertains to thefaculty of intelligence or to that of sense-perception; for theseare the only faculties within us by which we acquire knowledge.  If, then, the exercise of the faculty of sight is actual seeing,that of the auditory faculty, hearing, and, in general that of thefaculty of sense-perception, perceiving; and if there are someperceptions common to the senses, such as figure, magnitude, motion,&c., while there are others, as colour, sound, taste, peculiar [eachto its own sense]; and further, if all creatures, when the eyes areclosed in sleep, are unable to see, and the analogous statement istrue of the other ...

They all are what they are in virtue of acertain power of action or passion-just like flesh and sinew. But wecannot state their form accurately, and so it is not easy to tell whenthey are really there and when they are not unless the body isthoroughly corrupted and its shape only remains. So ancient corpsessuddenly become ashes in the grave and very old fruit preserves itsshape only but not its The invention of ...

It sometimes happens that the coldest bodies can be raised to thehighest temperature by foreign heat; for the most solid and thehardest bodies are coldest when deprived of heat and most burningafter exposure to fire: thus water is more burning than smoke andstone than water.                                Having explained all this we must describe the nature of flesh,bone, and the other homogeneous ...