Sentence examples for perceived directly from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

But time is not perceived directly by any sensory organ.

Moreover, "receiver j replaced" is not an event perceived directly by telephone-i since the telephones run in different contexts.

In other words, the object is perceived through the property, but the property itself is perceived directly rather than through another property.

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

The artist ends the process when she perceives directly that the product is good.

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.

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.

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).