Now, for the new organ of cognition arising from the union of these two polar faculties of the soul, Goethe coined the significant expression, exactsensorial fantasy.
To help towards a clear understanding of both tendencies, Goethe describes an exercise which is characteristic of his way of schooling himself in what he called exact sensorial fantasy.
Goethe's concept for the newly acquired faculty of cognition, exact sensorial fantasy, can give us the lead.
When a stimulus is repeated at such distant intervals of time, that the natural quantity of sensorial power becomes completely restored in the acting fibres, it will act with the same energy as when first applied.
But these partial exertions of sensorialpower are sometimes attended with increased partial exertions in other parts of the system, which sympathize with them, as the flushing of the face after a full meal.
At the same time in other cases the stimulus of pain or pleasure, and the stimulus of external bodies, may excite into action the sensorial powers of sensation and irritation, and thus add greater force to their muscular actions.
And that unless some other causes counteract either the violent exertions in the hot fit, or the great torpor in the cold fit, life will at length be extinguished by the expenditure of the whole of the sensorial power.
Whence the mixed catenations of voluntary and sensitive ideas and muscular motions in reverie; which, like every other kind of vehement exertion, contribute to relieve pain, by expending a large quantity of sensorial power.
Thus the thickness of the optic nerves, where they enter the eye, and the great expansion of the nerves of touch beneath the whole of the cuticle, evince the great consumption of sensorial power by these senses.
In those that follow it is excitations of the sensorial centres that find expression.
In a later work he sums up in these words his observations of sensorial acuteness in the degenerate: ‘Inaccessible to the feeling of pain, themselves without feeling, they never understand pain even in others.
It observes that the sensorial excitations are not caused by anything contained in itself.
All sorts of sensorial stimuli produce reflex contractions, but the auditory, apparently, to a much higher degree.
No sensorialrhythm could be so completely induced in the psychological organism as the sound-rhythm.
Her heart, her blood, her flesh, her very bones were filled with instincts and emotions common to the race before intellect developed, when the savage lived only with his sensorial perceptions.
Resolutely she held, as much as possible, to her sensorial perceptions.
The sensorial disturbances include wakefulness and stupor, headache, delirium, twitchings, cramps, and other symptoms indicative of functional impairment of the nervous system.
Such processes are those concerned in the production and dissipation of heat, in respiration and circulation, digestion and secretion, and in mental, motor, and other sensorial action.
To sum up: In contrast tosensorial imagination, which has its origin without, affective imagination begins within.
In artificial somnambulism--the hypnotism of Braid--the spinal cord acquires a very high degree of susceptibility to sensorial impressions, and the brain is even more incapable than in natural somnambulism of asserting its superiority.
Maury, in his very interesting work, to which reference has already been made, and which will hereafter be more specifically considered, adduces many examples of dreams produced by sensorial impressions.
In such cases the imagination seizes the imperfect perception and weaves it into a tissue of incongruous fancies, which, however, generally bear a more or less definite relation to the character of the sensorial impression.
The cutting off of sensorial impressions aids in lessening the power of the attention and thus predisposes to sleep.
In the somnambulic individual the brain is still more incapable of receiving sensorial impressions.
Sensorial images of this sort, whether literal or symbolic, play an enormous part in mysticism.
Rosalba then made her appearance as a portraitist, and she was the first to rest the entire beauty of her work on sensorial charm of feature and grace of pose.
Devices are used chiefly for strengthening the sensorial element, the appeal to the mind being in most cases secondary.
The first aim of art issensorial beauty, because sensorial experience must precede the impression of beauty upon the mind.
The effect of music being purely sensorial must vary with the emotional conditions surrounding the hearer.
But sensorial beauty is the first essential in a work of art: hence while the direct appeal to the mind must be made as strong as possible, this must not be done at the expense of the emotional elements.
It would appear that the answer is closely concerned with the condition of the sensorial nerves at birth, and the precocity or otherwise of the infantile imagination.
Speech adds intellectual information to the sensorial information, mainly in the form of associations, capable of reflecting the present and the absent.
With the relative loss of sensory experience, knowledge corresponding to the respective sensorial perception diminishes.
Together with the sensorial experience, intellectual elements were involved in the process.
Dantec on les Lois Naturelles, in which the author ingeniously points out the different sensorial districts into which science is divided, although, through a defect in logic, he accepts mechanics as the final explanation of things.
I have given some examples of psycho-sensorial messages in the visions which I have described.
This is telaesthesia, a phenomenon in the sensitivo-sensorial domain, analogous to motor telekinesis.
The sensorial or motor message is due either to the medium himself, or to an intelligence distinct from that of the medium, or to the combined action of the two intelligences.
In the more violent cases, the sensorial functions are much disturbed; even delirium supervenes, with violent muscular exertion and convulsions, and may be followed by coma, should the local affection not subside.
The circulating system and sensorial functions are often not much disturbed; but during the whole course of the disease, the bowels are much constipated.
In such cases, the blood may be absorbed, and the læsion repaired, without permanent impairment of the sensorial functions.
There were mental and sensorial illusions, the former caused by predominant ideas and corrected by proper reasoning, the latter caused by perversion of one sense and corrected by the right application of the others.
There the perceptions arose and through associative interplay the memory pictures and the ideas of action and the feelings arose, and the whole inner life was thus bound up with the processes in these sensorial spheres.
We recognized the fundamental truth that there is no sensorial state which is not at the same time the starting-point for motor reaction.
If one sensorial brain part is intensely engaged, the remainder of the brain is condemned to a kind of inactivity.
If a neutral fair account of the brain actions is attempted, there can hardly be doubt that this whole sensorial view of the brain is only half of the story and that the motor half has exactly the same right to consideration.
But even this selection inhibits only the attitude and not the sensorial excitement.
The difficulty evidently cannot be removed by simply saying that only one sensorial process can be developed in the brain at one time.
Reynolds points out, that the kind of sensorial disorder specially premonitory of the attacks consists rather in indefinable distressing sensations, than in actual pain.
The passage occurs in an article by Sir John Herschel on "Sensorial Vision," in his Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects, 1816.
By this time these cubes are no longer recognized superficially through sensorial impressions, but their minutest details are known to the child through the progressively intelligent work which they have occasioned.
The material follows the general characteristics of that used in the sensorial method, that is, the objects differ from each other in one and only one quality, the one which concerns the stimulation of the sense under education.
This was proof to us that sensorial preparation must precede these exercises, and furthermore, that the only difficulty Dalcroze movements encounter in children arises from insufficient sensory preparation in the children themselves.
Nomenclature is taught step by step as in the other sensorial exercises.
Now, it is known to be one of the commonest forms in which sensorial illusions shape themselves.
And it deserves remark, that impressions upon the mind are known to be capable of shaping particular kinds of fits, and especially of exciting and determining the features of sensorial illusions, that seem adjuvants in vampyrism.
For although her heavenly visitants were simply sensorial illusions, there yet remains something unexplained.
He was known to have very excitable nerves,--had already experienced sensorial illusions, and was particularly sensitive to the presence of human remains, which made him tremble and shudder in all his limbs.
And, moreover, with the nervous system must be included the sensorial apparatus on the one hand and the motor on the other, between which it acts as intermediary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sensorial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
