Immediate Perception by Touch

FOR all other forms of sense-perception besides seeing, hearing, tasting and smelling we employ the word ‘feeling’. No doubt this is the reason, as W. C. Kneale suggests, why there is the doctrine of the five senses. ¹ We speak of only one further sense, because we have only one further word. Nevertheless, it will be convenient to distinguish between at least two sorts of sense-perception covered by the word ‘feel’: perception by touch and perception of our own bodily state. (For convenience, I shall call the latter ‘bodily perception’.) These two sorts of perception are not cut off from each other with a hatchet; indeed this is very far from being the case. But a useful preliminary distinction can be made between the two.