Sentence examples for confused perception from inspiring English sources

Garnham said the Guardian, in its submission to the inquiry, and lawyers representing victims of press intrusion, had confused perception and the reality of police and press relations.

"Mapping the World" shows both the precision and the disorder underscoring the evolution of mapmaking, and how mistakes altered and confused perception, depending on where the maps were made.

Our confused perception of this temporal interaction results in the idea of an extended object.

A sensual pleasure, such as the pleasure of listening to music or that of viewing a painting, is a confused perception of perfection (i.e., a confused perception of harmony).

The two key ideas that Wolff takes from Leibniz are, first, the characterization of sensory perception as a clear but confused rather than distinct perception of things that could, at least in principle, be known both clearly and distinctly by the intellect; and, second, the characterization of pleasure as the sensory, and thus clear but confused, perception of the perfection of things.

So the past is re-created through his often confused perceptions.

The results appear to follow cognitive dissonance theory as subjects attempted to make mismatched expressions consistent on both the visual and audio dimensions of animations, resulting in confused perceptions of the emotional expressions.

In his mature metaphysics, Leibniz expresses this view somewhat differently by saying that a substance is active insofar as it has distinct perceptions and passive insofar as it has confused perceptions.

(G VI 617/AG 221) The fundamental idea here is two-fold: first, activity and passivity are features of the relative clarity and distinctness of the representations of the monad, and, second, insofar as the organic bodies of a particular monad are themselves constituted by monads, they – the monads of the organic body – will have confused perceptions.

He makes much of intriguing findings on the brain's unreliability, wandering thoughts, and confused perceptions.

Young contends that science is being "filtered" through the public's confused perceptions.