Sentence examples for direct perceptions from inspiring English sources

These direct perceptions cannot err, although reflection upon them, and a subsequent series of judgments, may be the source of error.

Kevin Mulligan (1998) advances a related view: though not direct perceptions of value, emotions can be said to justify axiological judgments.

Knowledge consists first in the intuition of being, the universal, and then in a subsequent series of judgments, or direct perceptions, through which knowing subjects affirm the actual existence of what they have experienced sensationally.

According to philosopher Gilles Deleuze, the revolutionary change in film occurred when the "movement-image," a progression of "privileged" instances of action and reaction, was replaced with direct perceptions of lived time and "any instance whatever" which are strung together by the cut.

A sense-datum is thus frequently defined as an object of direct perception.

Determining when direct perception ends and when memory takes over is difficult.

Of the recognized means of knowledge (pramana), the Charvaka recognized only direct perception (anubhava).

Some of these, I think, are simply tied to memory issues, but others involve the direct perception of time.

The artist recognises the fact that an image in one's memory, particularly an image of emotional import, is substantially different from one derived from direct perception; at the same time he suggests that direct perception can be considerably renewed and enriched by an imaginative wonderment.

Dick claimed to have access to what philosophers call the faculty of "intellectual intuition": the direct perception by the mind of a metaphysical reality behind screens of appearance.

The theologians Douglas Clyde Macintosh and Henry Nelson Wieman sought to build an "empirical theology" on the basis of religious experience understood as involving a direct perception of God.