Reality has never been my strong suit; even when Five Easy Pieces tainted my one-dimensional view of the road, even when I learned Kerouac had drunk himself to death, I still told myself that my initial, addled perception was correct.
There is one point, however, that I would like to clarify regarding Hiram Bingham's initial perception of Machu Picchu.
The initial perception was that fury at Nick Clegg's tuition fee U-turn, and Vince Cable's Viennese Waltz, would open the door for Labour.
The authors analyze several international events (America's involvement in Somalia, the Yom Kippur War) where, they argue, the initial perception of victory and defeat fail to match a retrospective analysis.Might it go similarly with the 2006 Democratic victory?
A five-year-old who has a concept of a bird as a living thing with a beak and wings that flies will try to assimilate the initial perception of an ostrich to his concept of bird.
An initial perception that City was a rich prince's indulgence when Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan bought the club in 2008 has ceded to a realisation that the intention is to make serious money out of it, and this deal values City at a round US$3bn£1.99bnbn) and rising.
Peter's initial perception of his arachnid powers involves an assault on the subway by a gang, and the best thing about it is that he looks as surprised as everyone else by what he does – first leaping to the ceiling (his new agility), accidentally ripping a woman's dress off (his sticky hands), then tossing a thug the length of the carriage (his superhuman strength).
The test results indicate that the sensor has a good initial perception capacity and a high sensitivity.
Depicted in Fig. 4, the initial perception that this conversion is difficult was reported by 78% of the participants (i.e. 39 + 39%).
We can justifiably conclude, for example, that we saw a vase and not some vase-like illusion because after the initial perception we then confirmed that what we saw does really hold water, as we expected and wished (iṣṭa).
