Quotation by Franz Clemens Brentano

We can say that the sound is the primary object of the act of hearing, and that the act of hearing itself is the secondary object.
Franz Clemens Brentano (1838–1917), Austrian philosopher. Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, tr. Antos C. Rancurello et al., p. 128, Routledge & Kegan Paul (1973).
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