tactual

Example Sentences

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Light and colour, of which he has no tactual evidence, he studies fearlessly, believing that all humanly knowable truth is open to him.

From The World I Live In by Keller, Helen

It is an array of the spiritual in certain natural elements, tactual beats, and an acquired knowledge of physical habits and moral traits of highly organized human beings.

From The World I Live In by Keller, Helen

The elephant is the most sagacious of quadrupeds — its tactual range and skill, and the consequent multiplication of experiences, which it owes to its wonderfully adaptable trunk, being the basis of its sagacity.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

Mach indeed claims to distinguish physiological Space, geometrical Space, visual Space, tactual Space as all different and yet apparently harmoniously blended in our Experience.

From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander

Instance the musician, who, by practice, is enabled to fuse a multitude of arrangements, auditory, tactual, and muscular, into a process of automatic manipulation.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John