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feeling
(redirected from tactual sensation)

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feeling
1. the sense of touch
2. 
a. the ability to experience physical sensations, such as heat, pain, etc.
b. the sensation so experienced
3. a state of mind


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Unlike Berkeley, Aristotle theorizes that the sense of touch alone is essential for the existence of an animal: "An animal is a body with a soul in it: every body is tangible, is perceptible by touch; hence necessarily, if an animal is to survive, its body must have tactual sensation.
 
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