In the first chapter of Part I of Leviathan, Hobbes paves the way for the rest of his discussion by explaining the way in which we sense things. "The cause of sense is the external body," he claims, contrary to what Aristotle any many others may have thought. Although, later developments in the study of how humans "sense" things eventually undermine our ability to causally relate the external object to our senses at all.
Essentially, what I'm wondering is this: if his thoughts on sense become obviously flawed and dated, what can we still take away from Hobbes' ideas? Is his entire point then undermined, or does this even concern what he's really trying to communicate?
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