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    Only hearing and sight are able to penetrate behind the purely physical so as to abstract the spiritual from the corporeal

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    • 1.The five external senses divide into those that are primarily material (touch, taste, smell) and those that are increasingly spiritual (hearing and sight)
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    • 2.The material senses are limited to purely physical apprehension
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    • 1.Aristotle held that smell can apprehend non-present objects and convey universal qualities, suggesting it transcends mere material contact.
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    • 2.If the criterion for 'spirituality' is distance from the object, smell operates at a remove from its source, undermining the hearing/sight distinction.
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    • 1.Condillac's statue thought-experiment demonstrates that touch alone, through resistance and spatiality, can generate abstract concepts like extension and otherness.
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    • 2.If touch can yield abstract, non-material cognition, then the material/spiritual division across the senses cannot be grounded in the sense modalities themselves.
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    The above discussion is directly related to the way in which Judah’s envisages both psychology and prophecy. According to him, the five external senses divide into (1) those that are primarily material (materiali): touch (tatto), taste (gusto), and smell (odorato); and (2) those that are increasingly spiritual (spirituali): hearing (per l’audito) and sight (per l’occhi).[31] It seems that only the latter are able to penetrate behind the purely physical so as to abstract the spiritual from th
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