Theorem II. Any feel which feeling has not informed me of, is unknown to me. Comments. 1. Words are sensibly intelligent to a man of only such words as he has experienced. 2. The intellectual signification of words discriminated from the sensible signification. 3. Intellectual intimations discriminated from sensible revelations.
Part II. Of the Extent of Sensible Knowledge. - The Physiology of the Senses: Or, How and what We See, Hear, Taste, Feel and Smell (1856)