Sentence examples for perception like from inspiring English sources

My sense of "I" stretched, extending the boundaries of my perception like an unfurling bouquet.

Just as people seem capable of superhuman strength under life-and-death situations, so adrenaline can produce extraordinary feats of perception like mine.

There is a perception like, 'Hey, if you don't help us, why should we exert any political capital on your behalf?' It's a perception you get by playing.

Therese's feelings, massing at the edge of her perception like the storm clouds out the car window, are a mystery to her.

As the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard said, "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom," but it's also freedom's price tag: no other animal on Earth gets worked up about perception like we do.

Introducing race and sex into a genre in which they have always been understood to be excluded - showing what's underneath social and cinematic convention - creates a giddy heightened perception, like a drug.

One concerns whether the higher-order states in question are perception-like, on the one hand, or belief-like, on the other.

His main objection centers on the charge that, if we knew our own mental states through a perception-like mechanism, then the following scenario would be possible.

One day Norman's clairvoyance faculty produces in him a belief that the President is in New York City, but with no accompanying perception-like experience, just the belief.

HOP theorists on the other hand can argue that their view explains some of the additional conditions required by HO accounts as natural consequences of the perception-like nature of the relevant higher-order states.

So why should our higher-order awareness of a mental state (either via a perception-like state, produced by inner sense, or via a higher-order thought about it) render that mental state conscious?