If it is true that the movement, both the acting and the being acted
upon, is to be found in that which is acted upon, both the sound and
the hearing so far as it is actual must be found in that which has the
faculty of hearing; for it is in the passive factor that the actuality
of the active or motive factor is realized; that is why that which
causes movement may be at rest. Now the actuality of that which can
sound is just sound or sounding, and the actuality of that which can
hear is hearing or hearkening; 'sound' and 'hearing' are both
ambiguous. The same account applies to the other senses and their
objects. For as the-acting-and-being-acted-upon is to be found in
the passive, not in the active factor, so also the actuality of the
sensible object and that of the sensitive subject are both realized in
the latter. But while in some cases each aspect of the total actuality
has a distinct name, e.g. sounding and hearkening, in some one or
other is nameless, e.g. the actuality of sight is called seeing, but
the actuality of colour has no name: the actuality of the faculty of
taste is called tasting, but the actuality of flavour has no name.
Since the actualities of the sensible object and of the sensitive
faculty are one actuality in spite of the difference between their
modes of being, actual hearing and actual sounding appear and
disappear from existence at one and the same moment, and so actual
savour and actual tasting, &c.
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