Sentence examples for external sense from inspiring English sources

Today neuroscientists are developing machines that bypass external sense organs and actually interface directly with the brain.

More (in the dramatic, external sense) happens to some people than to others — whether as an arbitrary outcome of the laws of probability or because certain characters attract drama.

It is this ambiguity that gives rise to the familiar puzzle about whether a tree falling in an uninhabited forest actually makes any sound: one might say that it makes a sound in the external sense but not in the internal sense; there is the usual external cause of the mental experience, but there is no one in whom the experience is actually brought about.

Logic is used in an external sense to make statements about those structures.

In fact, Reid claims, there are powerful reasons to reject skepticism about external sense.

This of course reinforces the ongoing theme that Knowledge does not properly include judgments of external sense.

In addition to these external senses there are also internal senses that use the same modalities.

In his view, besides his five external senses, man has a variety of internal senses, including a sense of beauty, of morality, of honour, and of the ridiculous.

Reid argued that there are always two parallel threads to our experience: "The external senses have a double province; to make us feel, and to make us perceive".

A chronic and debilitating condition, H.P.P.D. warps the perceptual faculties: the external senses are marred by a constellation of mostly visual distortions, while the internal ones are paralyzed by a concoction of dissociative symptoms, panic attacks, and depression.

Therefore, Vasubandhu sums up the Yogācāra objections against the reality of the external sense-objects (āyatanas) as: "An external sense-object is unreal because it cannot be the intentional object of cognition either as (1) a single thing or (2) as a multiple in [isolated] atoms; or (3) as a aggregate because the atom is not proven to exist" (Viṃ11, Sems tsam shi 3b).