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FAITH KNOWLEDGE AND CONDUCT
22–VARIETIES OF SENSATION
Sensations are either indefinite and vague or definite and clear. Indefinite and vague sensations are experienced with the senses other than sight. They are evanescent and cannot be fixed up by attention; hence, incapable of being subjected to investigation. They cannot even be recalled by the memory. Nevertheless they are whole and entire as sensations, i.e., as mental states.
There are twelve general varieties of sensations from the point of view of their implications. The sensation may be of a single object, or of many objects; it may be a homogeneous group or a heterogeneous one; the object may be partly (thinly) covered or wholly without cover; it may be steady, or unsteady; it may be moving slowly or rapidly; it may be describable or indescribable.
By multiplying 12x4 we get the total number of varieties of indefinite sensations as 48, which may be experienced with the four senses other than sight.
The number of the varieties of definite sensations is 288. This is reached by multiplying the number of the senses and the mind, that is, memory (5+1) by the number (12) of the varieties of sensations and the result (72) again by the number of the stages' (4) which occur from the receipt of the external stimulus to (com
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