Sentence examples for first perceptions from inspiring English sources

As the nervy journalist John Reed, just arrived from Harvard, lyrically wrote: "There I got my first perceptions of the life of my times".

Cf. Adam Smith (1759 [1982]: 319–21), who concedes that reason "is undoubtedly the source of the general rules of morality", but adds that the first perceptions upon which the rules are founded are reason-independent.

First, perceptions of peer engagement in academic dishonesty was not found to be predictive of student behaviour in the current study, despite the research literature frequently reporting peer behaviour as one of the main predictors of academic dishonesty (Brimble and Stevenson-Clarke 2005; McCabe and Trevino 1997; Tibbetts 1998).

First, perception of successful agency makes one's life meaningful.

That video is a lot of people's first perception of Sonar.

Direct perception means, first, perception unaided by technical instruments and, second, that the perception is unaided by inferences.

First, perception is non-conceptual in nature; no seeing is seeing-as, because that necessarily involves intervention of conceptual constructs, which contaminate the pristine given.

And so, as a first pass, it seems that consciousness for Descartes entails a perception (that has some content) and a second reflective act by which I am aware of the first perception.

However, the change in threshold is the original mechanism behind the origination of an attack and the growing unpleasantness of a usually inert external stimulus is probably nothing more than the first perception of the decreasing threshold.

He did not always make this as easy as he did when I first held him, but the peace I have chosen since then has sustained me in ways that first perception could not.

In the first, perception works like a movie camera: when one aspect of the scene slows down, everything is slowed down.