''Sense and Sensibilia'' (or ''On Sense and the Sensible'', ''On Sense and What is Sensed'', ''On Sense Perception'';

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: ''De sensu et sensibilibus'', ''De sensu et sensili'', ''De sensu et sensato'') is one of the short treatises by

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that make up the '' Parva Naturalia''. The English title ''Sense and Sensibilia'' adopted by the Revised Oxford Translation repeats the title

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chose for his 1962 book '' Sense and Sensibilia'', which in turn incorporated an allusive echo of

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's title '' Sense and Sensibility''.Kevin White, "Translator's Introduction", in Aquinas, ''Commentaries on Aristotle's "On Sense and What Is Sensed" and "On Memory and Recollection"'', trans. Kevin White and Edward M. Macierowski, Washington, D.C.: CUA Press, 2005, p. 6.

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Latin translation, Venice, 1562
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* James of Douai
G.R.T. Ross
1906 (Greek text, English translation, and commentary)

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