"Our ideas of what represents beauty and ugliness are based mainly on learned assumptions about the items that we perceive in our own separate worlds" [7].
Arnauld objected that this position involves a retraction of the claim in the Recherche that we perceive bodies by means of distinct ideas in God.
To say, then, that we perceive material things in God means that we immediately perceive ideas in God, and via these ideas, we indirectly perceive corporeal objects.
He was becoming less interested in what we perceive or how we perceive than in the very wonder that we perceive at all.
It's the theory of naive realism— the idea that because we perceive it so, it must be.
In brief prefaces added to the second volume of the Recherche, Malebranche chastised both thinkers for failing to read the work they were discussing, noting in particular that he had explicitly argued in the Recherche that the ideas we perceive exist in God rather than in us.
This more direct argument is introduced in "Eclaircissement X," where Malebranche urged that the ideas we perceive must exist in an "immutable and necessary Reason" since they are themselves immutable and necessary (Malebranche 1958 84, 3 129f).
Then Ronald Reagan won in 1980 on ideas that were perceived as out-there at the time but have now become orthodoxy.
"What does he know, coming from Japan?" Fergie pondered sharply when Wenger first began to make waves in England following his arrival from Grampus Eight, which was symptomatic of a mistrust of ideas that were perceived to be new wave or revolutionary to an English scene.
The pejorative use of "dinosaur" as something behind the times has been applied to people, styles, and ideas that are perceived to be out of date, and on the wane.
