Do I perceive something in the mist that resembles a way forward?
I perceive something much richer, an image that combines all these rough signals with an enormous quantity of past experiences.
(Med. 3, AT 7 38) As Descartes repeatedly conveys: "my nature is such that so long as I perceive something very clearly and distinctly I cannot but believe it to be true" (Med. 5, AT 7 69; cf. 3 64, 7 36, 7 65, 8a:9).
While clearly and distinctly attending to a proposition, the mind cannot but assent: "my nature is such that so long as I perceive something very clearly and distinctly I cannot but believe it to be true" (Med. 5, AT 7 69; cf. 3 64, 7 36, 7 65, 8a:9).
But the truth is that if I perceive something lacking from my colleagues, no matter how small or temporary (or imagined), I'll rush to compensate for it to ensure that things continue to move forward.
"One day Mitre did something I perceived as brilliant.
When I walked up the aisle and I saw my husband's face and I felt the warmth and surge of love from our family and friends -- that is the moment that I perceived a glimmer of something godlike.
But it was before deserters had been granted their posthumous pardons – that happened in 2006 – so I was clearly writing about something that I perceived to be very unjust.
Descartes maintains that when I clearly and distinctly perceive something my will is causally compelled to affirm it.
As I learned more about body love, I started to notice something interesting: The way I perceived the world shifted considerably.
