The Long Āgama Sūtra 13.41

13.41

佛告阿難：「緣觸有受，此為何義？阿難！若使無眼、無色、無眼識者，寧有觸不？」

The Buddha told Ānanda, “‘Feeling exists conditioned by contact.’ What does this mean? Suppose that there were no eye, form, and visual consciousness. Would there be contact?”