Trapped in this trance, we are unable to perceive the truth of who we really are.
"You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality," he once wrote.
Given this, the correct use of free will is identified as the critical factor in the attainment of knowledge: "If… I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness, then it is clear that I am behaving correctly and avoiding error.
Although some will perceive this as a reaction to the coaching decision, nothing could be further from the truth.
Birds perceive this entire spectrum.
Humans can perceive these truths, through a combination of intuition and critical reasoning, but they remain true whether humans perceive them or not.
And from these traits have sprung certain patterns of thinking that serve the vital purpose of preventing people from perceiving the truth, when the truth will discourage them.
Also newish is the rhetoric of unreality, the insistence, chiefly by Democrats, that some politicians are incapable of perceiving the truth because they have an epistemological deficit: they no longer believe in evidence, or even in objective reality.
He defines reason as "that faculty of the Mind, whereby it perceives the truth, Falsehood, Probability or Improbability of Propositions" (Essay, p. 3).
Scientists need to be prepared to demonstrate by example that questioning perceived truth, especially "sacred truth," is an essential part of living in a free country.
