Sentence examples for animal perceptions from inspiring English sources

The 10 tropes attributed to Aenesidemus showed the difficulties encountered by attempts to ascertain the truth or reliability of judgments based on sense information, owing to the variability and differences of human and animal perceptions.

The first objection to Protagoras 160e-161dd) observes that if all perceptions are true, then there is no reason to think that animal perceptions are inferior to human ones: a situation which Socrates finds absurd.

Many animal perceptions are superior to human perceptions (dogs' hearing, hawks' eyesight, dolphins' echolocatory ability, most mammals' sense of smell, etc)., and the Greeks knew it, cf. Homer's commonplace remarks about "far-sighted eagles", or indeed Aristotle, in the Eudemian Ethics, 1231a5 6.

The method used was called bio-connectionism which linked the thalamo-cortical mechanism reproduced with animal perception.

They gave workshops embodying ideas about animal perception and flocking through improvisational exercises and held panel discussions with zoologists and environmental scientists.

By noting the differences between animal perception and human perception, Berkeley suggests that it would be arbitrary anthropocentrism to claim that humans have special access to the true qualities of objects.

Drawing on the philosophy of John McDowell, Derry argues that direct perception cannot be transferred from the 'straightforward' question of animal perception to the 'complex' issue of human learning, because the distinctive feature of human engagement with the world is that it is conceptually mediated.

ISOL and interaction with animal perception, cognition, and synchronized behavior provide an interesting area for future study.

Among these, the emergence of the neuro-sensory system represents a particularly fascinating conundrum, because the biological support of animal perception and behaviour is extraordinarily complex at the molecular, cellular and anatomical scales, and without equivalent in the living world.

Since Protagoras' thesis implies that all perceptions are true, it not only has the allegedly absurd consequence that animals' perceptions are not inferior to humans.

Assessing the animals' perception of chronic social stress is difficult.