sensory qualities from atomic shape
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elemental shapes and sensation · taste · touch
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De Rerum Natura
The doctrine that sensory qualities (taste, touch, hardness, smell, fluidity) are caused by the shapes of the underlying atoms — smooth and round atoms producing pleasant sensations, hooked and rough atoms producing painful or bitter ones.
To cause diverse sensations.
Touch is indeed the body's only sense-
Our body's sense, the touch of each gives proof.