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.
The stimulus-error consists in describing the objects of perception and their meanings.
Objects of perception, in other words, are not readily disengaged, breaking up an ordinarily seamless flow of conscious experience.
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).
A set, wrote Cantor, is a collection of definite, distinguishable objects of perception or thought conceived as a whole.
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".
The idea that sense impressions form the immediate objects of perception played a large role in early analytic philosophy, showing once again its empiricist roots.
Not all of these characters have the same amount of realised "depth", but all of them are objects of perception, to use Gass's words, and things that can be correctly said of persons can also be said of them.
Nor is it that objects of perception are intrusive in an electric way as they are under mescalin or lysergic acid… It is that the perceiving turns inward, the eyelids droop, the blood is aware of itself".
The logical truth of Aristotle's sample proposition is reflected by the fact that "The objects of sight are objects of perception" can validly be inferred from "Sight is perception".
