Because concrete concepts, like "cup", have perceptible features, such as shape, size and color, whereas abstract concepts, like "freedom", lack sensory features, it has been proposed that the latter type of concepts rely more heavily on semantic or verbal information5,6.
He famously denies that perceptible qualities other than shape and size (and, perhaps, weight) really exist in the atoms themselves: one direct quotation surviving from Democritus claims that 'by convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but in reality atoms and void' (DK 68B9, trans. Taylor 1999a).
In fact, (1) figures and shapes are those perceptible qualities which inhere in substances because of the mutual position of its quantitative parts, while affective qualities and affections inhere in substances because of the form itself of the substantial composite.
By comparing the shapes of Figure 3 e) and Figure 3(a), we notice perceptible variations in the ninth subinterval, and variations in other subintervals are negligible.
By comparing the shapes of Figure 1(a) and Figure 1(c), we notice perceptible variations in the second subinterval, and variations in other subintervals are negligible.
There has been a perceptible shift over the summer concerning the future shape of the Anglican communion.
In their view, a tomato is first of all something that has certain perceptible properties, including a certain size, weight, colour, and shape.
Located around three-quarters of the way along the length of the body, it varies in shape from one individual to another; some only have a barely perceptible lump, but others may have prominent and falcate (sickle-shaped) dorsals.
They play out, as they did three days ago, in a shirtdress with an unfinished hem, barely perceptible, or a skirt whose conservative gray knife pleats were revealed through a cut shaped like an inverted V in front of its overlay.
condition for registration that a sign be visually perceptible.
A perspective within which a connection of common emphasis placed upon the actions and the creations of the individual, the facticity and the uniqueness of individual human existence, becomes perceptible through this sort of connection; "the significance of life," as Dilthey maintained, "lies in its shaping and its development".(Dilthey, Patterns, p. 88).
