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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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