ABSTRACT
Touch is the fundamental sense, because it is tied in with nutrition as the sense that perceives food; thus its essential objects are the dry or moist and the hot or cold. Aristotle lists seven basic flavors: sweet, salt, bitter, harsh, pungent, astringent, and acid. Aristotle's application of his developed schema to thinking is brief and compact. Imagination holds an appropriate place between sensation and thought. The impressions produced by our senses linger after the senses have ceased to be active. Traditional interpretations of Aristotle's use of phantasia have taken it for granted that he means some kind of picture-viewing and have accordingly treated phantasma as a sense image. Aristotle's close association of imagination with thought has had its place historically in the psychological controversies over the possibility of imageless thought. Aristotle's application of his developed schema to thinking is brief and compact.
