Sentence examples for bodily vision from inspiring English sources

The mind moves out of the darkness it is in to find a trace of its light, which stands to it as the sun stands to the eyes in bodily vision.

He likens this darkening of the mind to a cloudy day: as bodily vision is darkened by clouds, so the operation of the cognitive powers is darkened by bodily appearances (phantasmata), which obstruct our mental vision and render it unable to see intelligible items in their purity.

Under Augustine's influence Grosseteste subscribes to an illuminationist account of human knowledge, according to which human knowledge is understood by analogy to bodily vision: as a body can only be seen if light is shed on it and the eyes, so something can only be known if a spiritual light is shed on it and the mind's eye.

But this view presupposes the implausible chronology according to which On Truth was written before the commentary and, as van Dyke 2009 points out, fits poorly with Grosseteste's analogy between the light involved in scientific knowledge and the light shed by the sun in bodily vision, which comes from a source apart from the senses.

Zinc is one of the most important micronutrients due to the prevalence of zinc-dependent enzymes in metabolic processes; zinc's vital role in several bodily functions, such as vision, taste perception, cognition, cell reproduction, growth, and immunity; the beneficial effect of zinc supplementation on many disease states [ 139].

Tellingly, history's most famous political cartoons abound with visions of bodily disfigurement.

The vision of using bodily fluids to power our future is not new, but it is curious.

"Homosexual" conjures up dark visions of filthy bodily acts that arouse deeply-rooted feelings of disgust and ancient fears of Sodom and Gomorrah and hell and damnation.

However, this view neglects the essential role that vision plays in our bodily experiences, which has been recently revealed by the experimental literature on multisensory interactions.

These results will be of interest to researchers trying to understand how TMEM16 ion channels evolved to be involved in processes as diverse as vision, the secretion of bodily fluids and the immune system.

Thus, experiment 2 confirmed that the expectation (even without vision) of inducing a positive bodily state in someone else seems to influence the perception of active touch giving.