But we don't want to say that whenever x is perceivable, it is perceived etc.
Horse and books, when not being actually perceived by any person, are still there, still perceivable, "still with relation to perception".
He argued that, when a person imagines trees or books "and no body by to perceive them," he is failing to appreciate the whole situation: he is "omitting" the perceiver, for imagined trees or books are necessarily imagined as perceivable.
In principle, everything that exists is perceivable.
When an interval lasts more than a few seconds, it no longer is directly perceivable as a whole, but its length can be estimated on the basis of memory function.
Ephesus, Priene, and Miletus, on the Aegean shores of Asia Minor, are examples of this type of harbour disappearance, the destructive agent in each of these cases being the picturesque Meander (now the Menderes Riverr, whose creation of new land from the sea is readily perceivable from high ground adjacent to the river mouth.
This striation suggests two quite different things: the "dream" of life that like a river passes through names and forms (namarupa), but also its very opposite: the reinforcement of material reality, palpable, perceivable and bounded by time and space.
Often, it is this depth of flavour that is perceivable in the final dish rather than an actual beer taste.
The Prabhakaras admitted only such universals as inhere in perceptible instances and insisted that true universals themselves must be perceivable.
To talk about any existent object is thus to talk about a collection of perceivable features localized in a particular portion of space-time.
Once it is understood that objects are merely sets of properties and that such properties are in principle always perceivable, the notion that there is some sort of unbridgeable gap between people's perceptions and the objects they perceive is seen to be just a mistake.
