Sentence examples for perceive directly from inspiring English sources

To perceive a human body in action is to perceive, directly, a person.

In cases where I am looking directly at an object that is before me, such as a tree, I am inclined to think that what I perceive directly is the tree itself, not some ideational proxy for the tree.

Because the mind of another person is inherently mutable and impossible to perceive directly, inferences about human minds may be fundamentally more ambiguous than inferences about our inanimate, physical surroundings (Mitchell forthcoming).

In this case, the solution is straightforward and only one inference is required: The animals perceive directly that the food is absent in one location and need to deduce that the food is probably in the alternative location.

But time is not perceived directly by any sensory organ.

In contrast to traditional realism, direct realism holds that physical objects themselves are perceived "directly".

Thompson Clarke went beyond Moore in arguing that normally the entire physical object, rather than only its surface, is perceived directly.

Applications to different neuroanatomical systems illustrated the ability of our method to reveal organization rules that cannot be perceived directly on raw data.

If the former, it would follow that we remember nothing which is absent; if the latter, how is it possible that, though perceiving directly only the impression, we remember that absent thing which we do not perceive?

The development of gunpowder weapons, however, was the first significant success in rationally and systematically exploiting an energy source whose power could not be perceived directly with the ordinary senses.

We focus on two metrics of performance: (a) search protocol performance, a local gain perceived directly by peer-to-peer network users and (b) network utilization, a global property that is of interest to network service providers.