"You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality," he once wrote.
You're much more able to perceive the truth when you run into it.
At this point you may begin to perceive the truth that "funny" is inherent to the person.
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.
We often err not because we find it hard to perceive the truth (it is often right there, at the surface), but because it is easier and more pleasant to be guided by our feelings, especially if self‐centered.
He defines reason as "that faculty of the Mind, whereby it perceives the truth, Falsehood, Probability or Improbability of Propositions" (Essay, p. 3).
7. If any one doubt this, let him study the different natures of birds, fishes, and animals of the land, and he will easily perceive the truth of these principles, from the variety existing among them.
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.
Trapped in this trance, we are unable to perceive the truth of who we really are.
The law professors argued that the justices in the majority were in the grip of a common psychological fallacy: that other people's perceptions might be shaped by socioeconomic position or political commitment, but they themselves perceived the objective truth.
