External and Internal senses

Question 1

What are the senses used for

Answer 1

1. To gather data
2. To provide sense knowledge
3. The first stage of the human knowing process

Question 2

How does the human knowing process occur

Answer 2

The environment provides stimuli to the external senses. The external senses provide data to the internal senses.
The internal senses provide an image to the human intellect.

Question 3

What are the two types of senses the body has and what do they contain ?

Answer 3

External Senses

Internal Senses -

Question 4

What are the 5 external senses

Answer 4

ears, eyes , tongue , nose, skin/ flesh

Question 5

Show the biological operation of the senses

Answer 5

Object > Physical Stimuli
   |               |
Organ >  Receptors
   |               |   
Nervous > Brain 
System

Question 6

Show the philosophical perspective of the operation of the senses

Answer 6

Sensible form of the object 
                  |
Sense organ 
                  | 
Immaterial quasi-spiritual alternation of the object.

Question 7

What is the need for internal senses ?

Answer 7

Bringing data together to facilitate knowledge.

Question 8

What are the internal senses ?

Answer 8

1. Perception/ common sense
2. Imagination
3. Cogitative
4. Memory

Question 9

Show the flow/activity of the internal senses

Answer 9

Data from external senses > perception > imagination > cogitative > Memory

Question 10

What is perception?

Answer 10

This is the sense that attributes the sensations to a specific object.

Question 11

How does perception attribute sensations to a specific object

Answer 11

By unifying sensations received from external senses.

Question 12

What is imagination ?

Answer 12

This is the sense that receives the perception and develops the image of the external object from the data.

Question 13

What are the two types of imagination

Answer 13

1. Retentive imagination

2. Creative imagination

Question 14

What is retentive imagination

Answer 14

It retains/keeps the images it develops.

Question 15

What is creative imagination

Answer 15

Puts together retained images to create new images

Question 16

What is the cogitative sense ?

Answer 16

Evaluates the image of an object or situation in terms of whether it is good or bad for me to influence my reaction.

Question 17

What is memory ?

Answer 17

This is the sense that preserves the evaluations of the estimative or cogitative sense about the image of the external object.