Article ID: CBB001420142

Aristotle's Mark of Sentience (2014)

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I reconsider Aristotle's account of perception by way of an `organic' reading of the sensitive mean. I argue that the mean serves as a homeostatic mechanism that allows for the replication of forms in the organs in the process of perceptual alteration. The mean, as a product of properly constituted organs, is that by which Aristotle separates animals from plants.

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Description On Aristotle's distinction between plants and animals.


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Authors & Contributors
Lennox, James G.
Tipton, Jason A.
Marmodoro, Anna
Zucker, Arnaud
Stoyles, Byron J.
Roark, Tony
Concepts
Animals
Senses and sensation; perception
Philosophy
Classification in biology
Biology
Physiology
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Places
Greece
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