Sentence examples for object of perception from inspiring English sources

This is Aristotle's meaning when he claims: "the perceptive faculty is in potentiality such as the object of perception already is in actuality" and that when something is affected by an object of perception, "it is made like it and is such as that thing is" (De Anima ii 5, 418a3 6).

Existentialism, however, also emphasizes the objective side of the link; that is, the world itself as object of perception and knowledge, and as the context in which human action takes place.

"It's the same object of perception but a completely different experience," he explains.

He is not an object of perception, and nothing whatever that is appropriate to persons can be correctly said of him".

In the first, a stage of nonconceptualized (nirvikalpaka) perception, the object of perception is apprehended vaguely and in a most general manner.

As Locke uses the term, a "simple idea" is anything that is an "immediate object of perception" (i.e., an object as it is perceived by the mind) or anything that the mind "perceives in itself" through reflection.

The perceptible ones were objects of perception, which was capable of attaining truth about them but nothing that counted as knowledge; they were within the heavens.

Objects of perception, in other words, are not readily disengaged, breaking up an ordinarily seamless flow of conscious experience.

The following proposition (from Aristotle), for instance, is a simple truth of logic: "If sight is perception, the objects of sight are objects of perception".

In its metaphysical aspect, realism holds that at least some objects of perception exist independently of the mind.

Like most forms of realism, representative realism holds that the direct objects of perception are sense-data (or their equivalents).