Five senses
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sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch · sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch · the five senses · البصر والسمع والذوق والشم واللمس
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The five external senses, enumerated as the instruments through which outer sensation reaches the brain
The instruments of outer sensation are the external organs proper to sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch.
De Anima
The five bodily senses, defended at length against skeptical charges of unreliability and related to the intellect.
For they are not members of the animate substance, but faculties — as the locomotive, the active, the cogitative, and whatever they distinguish in this manner, even those five most famous senses, sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell.
It is not lawful, it is not lawful for us to call these senses into doubt, lest in Christ too their faith be deliberated, lest perhaps it be said that He falsely saw Satan cast down from heaven, or falsely heard the Father's voice testifying concerning Him, or was deceived when He touched Peter's mother-in-law, or afterwards perceived another smell of the unguent which He accepted for His burial, …
For from this they snatch the difference between the corporeal senses and the intellectual powers, which they accommodate even to the parable of the ten virgins — so that the five foolish ones figure the corporeal senses, foolish, namely, because easy to be deceived, while the wise express the mark of the intellectual powers, wise, namely, because they touch that truth which is hidden and supernal …