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Abstract: In 1645, Christoph Haunold (1610-1689), a young professor of philosophy at the University of Dillingen, harshly attacks the arguments of his Prague colleague Rodrigo de Arriaga (1592-1667) concerning the species sensibiles in his Philosophia de anima sensitiva. At least in case of the visual sense, Arriaga and Haunold agree in the assumption of species, but not in further points, namely the divisibility and the intensifi cation of species, their visibility and function, the necessity of species for hearing, the perceptibility of the location in space through the sensus communis and the existence of species within the inner sense, which are not derived from perception. Because of its comprehensive recourse on experience and experiment, this subtle debate becomes an impressive prime example of the relation between ontology, common sense, and experimental experience. |
