Pure
Sensation is the simplest mental action. It is the first response of
the Mind to the World. Pure Sensation contains no suggestions of, or associations with, past experience. Memory plays no part in it. For the duration of a Pure Sensation it is not named, classed, or compared. No propositions about it are uttered. Perception is dependent on Sensation for its existence but Sensation does not need Perception.
The
relationship between the World and Sensation is immediate, direct, |