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When sensation have an intellectual significance, we are barely conscious of their quality as feelings.
For example, when we read, we are apt to overlook gross misprints unless they are of such a nature as to interfere with our taking in the meaning.
When a person speaks to us, if we are interested in what he says, we do not notice peculariarities of pronumciation unless they are such as to prevent our understanding of them.
This general fact proves that the qualities of feeling do not concern thought except merely as arbitary signs to distinguish one thought from another.
But dimas are the feelings in the process of reasoning, we can by close attention discern at least.
In the first place, a peculiar quality of feeling is connected with the first irresistible starting up of the conclusion. In case