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A FINGER pressed against a table has sensations of contact and muscular sensations of resistance. Prof. H. H. Price, in his presidential address to the Aristotelian Society on February 11, analytically supposes the finger to have the muscular sensations only. The owner would have a notion of force through these muscular sensations, but no notion of matter because he has no sensations of contact. Thus a being who experiences muscular sensations and never experiences sensations of contact would be "aware of pure force, disembodied force as it were".
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GREGORY, J. The Concept of Force. Nature 154, 24 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154024b0
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