Sentence examples for perceptible form from inspiring English sources

The chief function of art is to meet this psychological need by expressing abstract conceptual values and metaphysical truths in concrete perceptible form.

Note, however, that this account does not necessarily require that the perceptible form needs to be present in the medium in the same way as it is present in the object of sense or in the sense-organ (the relationship between these latter two modes of the existence of the perceptible form is a further issue of contention, see the entry on Aristotle: Psychology).

Therefore, it can be considered that cancer is an expression of general evolutionary mechanisms by which phenotype bubbles up from cellular proclivities to become eventual perceptible form in continuous reaction to epigenetic stress.

First, he asserts that in "pure" judgments of taste our pleasure in beauty is a response only to the perceptible form of an object, not to any matter or content it may have—for example, in pictorial arts, "the drawing is what is essential," while the "colors that illuminate the outline…can…enliven the object in itself for sensation, but cannot make it…beautiful" (CPJ, §14, 5 225).

While he continues to maintain that in pure judgments of taste our pleasure is in the unity of the form of the object alone, he quickly recognizes that there are a variety of impure forms of beauty where what we respond to with the free play of our imagination and understanding is harmony between an object's perceptible form and its matter, its content, or even its purpose.

No marshmallow can receive the form of an actual automobile; and only entities capable of perceiving can receive the perceptible forms of objects.

Indeed, theoretical entities in modern science can be hard to represent to ourselves because of the limitations of our conceptions to perceptible forms and properties (PD 166).

He writes: "[a]s a form of truth [clearing] technology is grounded in the history of metaphysics, which is itself a distinctive and up to now the only perceptible phase of the history of Being" (Letter on Humanism 244).

While not being themselves Forms, perceptible things are not really separate from the intelligible Forms on which they depend.

No less than Form and perceptible thing in Platonism and Neoplatonism, in Christian Neoplatonism Creator and creature are bound together in a parallel asymmetry.

The wires scrape the sides, forming barely perceptible uneven edges that puff up when boiled to soak up sauce like a sponge.