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Inquiry into Vital Principle, its nature, essence, and accidents. |
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Examine opinions of earlier writers on Vital Principle's properties. |
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Investigate if Vital Principle is self-motive or externally influenced. |
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Evaluate theory of Vital Principle as harmony and its inconsistencies. |
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Analyze theories considering Vital Principle as a composite of elements. |
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Essence is matter, species, reality; Vital Principle is essence's reality. |
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Living beings have Vital Principle for nutrition, growth, decay. |
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Vital Principles categorized: nutritive, sentient, appetitive, locomotive, cogitative. |
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Study each Vital Principle faculty: nutritive, sentient, cogitative, appetitive. |
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Sensation results from motion, impression; affected by external objects. |
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Objects of perception: peculiar, common, accidental; related to senses. |
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Visible objects need light; light activates diaphanous medium. |
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Sound produced by percussive motion; voice is expressive sound. |
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Smell: related to taste; humans have less sensitive smell. |
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Taste: sapid objects detected through humidity in fluid. |
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Touch senses manifold tangible qualities through an internal organ. |
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Senses perceive forms without matter; excessive impressions destroy organs. |
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No sense beyond sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch exists. |
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Mind perceives itself and others, questioning its own reality. |
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Vital Principle: thought, sensation, imagination, separate from animals' irrationality. |
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Mind relates to thought as sensation does to perception. |
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Mind is dual: creates and comprehends, like light to color. |
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Mind thinks indivisibles, errors arise from miscombining thoughts and time. |
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Mind's act and knowledge's reality differ; no constant motion. |
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Vital Principle is all things; forms exist in potentiality. |
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Appetite and mind, locomotion driven by practical thought. |
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Appetite drives motion, mind is calculating, practical thought. |
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Touching creatures sense pain, pleasure, desire; lack true imagination. |
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Nutrition essential for life, sentient perception guides actions. |
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Touch necessary for life; other senses enhance existence. |
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