Sentence examples for capable of perception from inspiring English sources

In the attack on Spinoza's Tractatus, however, More included an attempted refutation of the claims of Francis Glisson (which More likened to Spinoza's views) that all matter, whether animate or inanimate, is capable of perception, is appetitive, and therefore in some sense alive.

And the soul is a nature capable of perception.

And the bots themselves begin to become sentient, thus capable of perception and feelings as they strive to understand their reality and achieve their own true potential.

"—of perception".

At the age of sixteen Huxley had an attack of keratitis, which, after an 18-month period of near-blindness, left him with one eye just capable of light perception and the other with an unaided Snellen fraction of 10/200.

Perhaps it's no surprise that only a teenager is capable of such perception.

Our documentation of elephant vocal learning adds support to the "vocal learning and rhythmic synchronization hypothesis," since it has been recently suggested that Asian elephants may be capable of beat perception and synchronization (BPS) [ 25, 26].

For a fetus to be conscious in a sense that would establish it as a fully actualized human life, according both to current neuroscientific standards and to the philosophical tradition from which the concept stems, it would have to be capable of self-perception as well as simple perception of stimuli.

(And since the simple substance must have representations of its unique perspective, it must be a mind-like substance, a monad, capable of having perceptions).

If we admit conceptual awareness as perception, we are forced to accept that a sense faculty is capable of remembering (since perception is a cognition brought about by the functioning of the sense faculty) but that cannot be the case because a sense faculty, being a mere instrument of cognition, is in itself unconscious and cannot remember anything.

All created substance is living, capable of motion and perception.