tactual

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In the most intelligent anthropoid apes we find the tactual range and delicacy greatly augmented, new avenues of knowledge being thus opened to the animal.

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

I know that I must have dreamed because I recall no break in my tactual experiences.

From The World I Live In by Keller, Helen

Diderot attempts to solve the problem by maintaining that tactual sensations occupy an extended space which the blind in thought can add to or contract, and in this way equip himself with spatial conceptions.

From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander

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

The senses are nascent, the basis of all of them being that simple tactual sense which the sage Democritus recognised 2,300 years ago as their common progenitor.

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