The Spirit and The Letter: Aristotle on Perception

Victor Caston

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Abstract It is hard to imagine that a footnote could cause so much controversy. In his 1974 article, ‘Body and Soul in Aristotle’, Richard Sorabji claimed that perceiving, on Aristotle’s view, involves a physiological process in which the sense organ ‘literally takes on’ the perceptible quality of the object (49 n. 22).1 It was intended, no doubt, as a straightforward reading of Aristotle’s claim that perception is a form of assimilation, where the sense organ becomes like its object.

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