Sensation only occurs through affection by an external sensed object
Evidence
Just as the ‘combustible’, as Aristotle says further, ‘can never ignite itself spontaneously’, sensation cannot be explained except as the affection of the sensory or sentient organ, that is by the action of the sensible, or of the sensed. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 431
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Sensation is constituted as an inert exteriority whose reason for being lies outside itself (similarity 0.85)
- Sensation requires an object other than the sense acting on it (similarity 0.83)
- Sensation is fundamentally defined as a species of alteration (similarity 0.81)
- Imagination differs from perception in conscious attitude, not object content (similarity 0.78)
- Thought is self-initiated while sensation requires an external object (similarity 0.78)