In the book The Hand, an Organ of the Mind, Matthew Ratcliffe discusses in chapter 6 “Touch and the Sense of Reality” the role of tactual perception in constituting a sense of reality and belonging to the same world. In this essay I summarize his approach regarding the role of touch for perception, and the sense of reality and belonging as necessary background. I will raise questions and discuss how he argues the claimed primacy of touch over all other senses.