Sentence examples for outer objects from inspiring English sources

Kant (1781/1997) says we have an "inner sense" by which we learn about mental aspects of ourselves that is in important ways parallel to the "outer sense" by which we learn about outer objects.

What may have provoked Valla's anger about the traditional picture is the seemingly passive role allotted to the soul in perception and knowledge: it seems to come only at the very end of a long chain of transmission, which starts with outer objects and concludes with a merely receptive tabula rasa.

(2) If the content contributes to a perception or a thought of something red, the content concerns something external to the mind — it serves for the apprehension of the coordinated outer objects and can therefore be called turned outwards (extraversion, [Auswärtswendung]).

Rooted in imagination, the 'lived space' is essentially subjective, a passive experience wherein the outer physical space resonates with the inner imagination, which makes symbolic use of outer objects, retaining or rejecting them according to an arbitrary, because subjective, though often cohesive system of priorities and preferences.

If a subjective intuition is directly caused by an "outer" object, Bolzano calls it an 'outer intuition'.

" we infer that there is an outer object acting on us only because a certain change in our inner self takes place, a change that we interpret as the object's effect on us".

It is subjective ideas such as the subjective idea of the change in our mind that is the immediate reaction on an outer object (such as a rose) that stimulates our senses.

As the sense of touch provides the most narrow contact between outer object and sensing spirit, it assumes the role of the primary sense, which was traditionally identified with the sense of vision (DRN book VII, ch. IX, vol. III, p. 34).

The reason it had not been noticed until now is its steep orbital inclination; most searches for large outer Solar System objects concentrate on the ecliptic plane, where most bodies are found.

In a United Nations draft resolution put forward by the Russian Federation and China in October 2014, member states were asked to vote against the weaponization of space and the "threat or use of force against outer space objects," stressing an urgency to prevent an outer space arms race.

Using briefly flashed dots that marked the outer border of objects, it was found that timing differentials within and among successive dot pairs affected recognition, with significant declines being seen by the addition of temporal separations in the millisecond range.