Five Wits

Stephen Hawes’ poem Graunde Amoure shows that the five (inward) wits were “common wit”, “imagination”, “fantasy”, “estimation”, and “memory”.[3] “Common wit” corresponds to Aristotle’s concept of the sensus communis, and “estimation” roughly corresponds to the modern notion of instinct.

[Five wits: common sense, fantasy, memory, judgement, imagination].