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interpretation
is disclosed.
Suppose a man has not experienced this himself, and suppose that he is told how some people fall
into a
dead faint, in which hearing, sight, and the other senses no longer function, and in this condition
perceive
the unseen. He would deny that this is so and demonstrate its impossibility. „The sensible powers‟,
he would
say, „are the causes of perception or apprehension; if a man does not perceive things like the
unseen when
these powers are actively present, much less will he do so when the senses are not functioning‟.
This is a
form of analogy which is shown to be false by what actually occurs and is observed. Just as
intellect is one
of the stages of human development in which there is an `eye‟ which sees the various types of
intelligible
is disclosed.
Suppose a man has not experienced this himself, and suppose that he is told how some people fall
into a
dead faint, in which hearing, sight, and the other senses no longer function, and in this condition
perceive
the unseen. He would deny that this is so and demonstrate its impossibility. „The sensible powers‟,
he would
say, „are the causes of perception or apprehension; if a man does not perceive things like the
unseen when
these powers are actively present, much less will he do so when the senses are not functioning‟.
This is a
form of analogy which is shown to be false by what actually occurs and is observed. Just as
intellect is one
of the stages of human development in which there is an `eye‟ which sees the various types of
intelligible