Sentence examples for perceptible world from inspiring English sources

Some mystics find the spiritual to be immanent within the world of ordinary sense perception, but others discount the perceptible world as illusion and attribute reality to the spiritual alone.

First (AṣS 29.20 ff)., he says some nihilistic thinkers (eke) are the Laukāyatika (the followers of Lokāyata, the materialist school), who do not admit any instrument of knowledge which would could go beyond the perceptible world, i.e., they accept perception as the only cognitive criterion.

Unlike the Hindu traditions, the Daoist mysticism of China locates the unitive in the perceptible world.

The atoms collide and agglomerate, resulting in events in the perceptible world.

For Plato the organization and laws of the republic have to be inscribed in the perceptible world, however difficult this may be.

Shamans and other mystics embrace pantheons that define the scope of the spiritual, partly by deduction from the perceptible world and partly through mythology.

But the most fundamental and formidable difficulty was to explain how precisely an absolute unity (the first principle) could give rise to the obvious diversity of the intelligible and perceptible worlds.

Burroughs, however, wages literary war not on perceptible real-world targets but against suggestions that anyone is responsible for anything.

For Marx and Engels, materialism meant that the material world, perceptible to the senses, has objective reality independent of mind or spirit.

The slowdown in the Chinese economy has had a perceptible impact on world demand for oil, while there has been a dramatic increase in the supply coming onto the market – the most obvious example being the fracking phenomenon in the US.

Plato's strategy is to show that these theories have their own distinctive area of application, the perceptible or sensible world, within which they are true.