Sentence examples for act of sensing from inspiring English sources
An act of sensing a sensum constitutes an immediate acquainting awareness of the sensum in question.
Accordingly, if the secondary object of a proteraesthesis were a just-past act of sensing, we could know with certainty that we ourselves, as the subject of that act, existed a few moments ago.
This content can be verbally indicated by attaching an adverbial modifier to the verb that expresses the act of sensing (which is where the label for the view comes from).
Thus what is described as 'a sensation of red' is a unitary state of mind, and strictly speaking not a state which decomposes into an act of sensing and a sensed red patch.
This relational conception of experience is sometimes called an "act-object" conception, since it posits a distinction between the mental act of sensing, and the object which is sensed.
Red is not, therefore, what might be called the intentional object of an act of sensing, or if it is, it is so only derivatively; it is primarily a quality of the sentient being, who experiences itself as literally turning red when it has this sensation (Treatise I.xi.8).
Instead, design thinking now emphasizes humans as actors engaged in the act of sense making: the assembly of meaningful narratives that explain what is happening, so that actors can respond appropriately.
These decompose into acts of sensing and object sensed, sensa.
Phenomenal continuity is secured by the overlapping of neighbouring acts of sensing (e.g., the second half of A1 and the first half of A2 are numerically identical).
Broad may reject durationless acts of sensing, but he does not reject acts of sensing of varying extents or durations, and [A1-A2] includes as proper parts many acts of finite duration that are shorter than itself, and just as [A1-A2] apprehenDs D as a whole, so too do all these finite parts.
This is why we pick out our acts of sensing (i.e., the experiences themselves) rather than their external objects irrespective of their informational etiology: whether or not they are veridical, they equally hurt.
