Definition of "sensations" []

• Plural form of sensation. (noun)

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• "Let us provisionally apply to these modifications the term sensations, without settling the question of their physical or mental nature."
• "We may continue to suppose that matter exists, and even that it is matter which provokes in our mind those events which we call our sensations; but we cannot know if by its nature, its essence, this matter differs from that of mind, since we shall be ignorant of all its properties."
• "In like manner, it is easy to see that the roundness and the hardness are forms of our consciousness, belonging to the groups which we call sensations of sight and touch."