For every truth that is permissible to be known there is a special perception, not a reality, I mean its place, and the one who perceives these perceptions made these perceptions one eye, which are six things, hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and the mind, and all of them perception of things except the mind is necessary, but the things that are normally connected to them never make a mistake, and he made a mistake in this. A group of rational people attributed error to the senses, but this is not the case. Rather, the severity is to the judge
[ rational and sensory knowledge ]
As for The mind's perception of the intelligibles is divided into two parts: some of it is necessary, like all other perceptions, and some is not necessary. Rather, in its knowledge, it lacks six tools, including the five senses that we mentioned, including the thinking power, and there is no known thing that it is correct for a creature to know that it is aware of one of these perceptions. Rather, we said that a group made a mistake in perception. The senses, so errors were attributed to them, and that is that they saw that if they were in a ship that was taking them along with [Page 214 of the Cairo edition]
the coast, they saw the coast running with the running of the ship, so sight gave them what is neither real nor known at all, for they know with necessary knowledge that the coast He did not move from his place, and they could not deny what they saw of the movement.