The next workshop introduced a methodology that involved participatory social cartography, a tool mainly used by NGOs (Gaillard and Mercer 2012) and employed to elicit some of the perceptions and concepts people have of risks, hazards, and vulnerability.
16 The underlying theoretical assumption in both approaches is that individual perceptions and concepts are at least partially socially constructed.
As we were interested in participants' perceptions and concepts of physical activity in retirement, we did not provide a specific definition of physical activity but asked them to define physical activity in their own terms.
The basic problem for living beings in his view is not that we experience an illusory world; the problem is that we are fooled into accepting the reality of our perceptions and our concepts.
From the theoretical perspective, thought establishes connections between sensory-perception, intuition, and concepts, whereas history synthesizes the aesthetic, logical, and practical levels of human activity.
The right side, home to spatial perception and nonverbal concepts, is the nonlinear, high-concept source of the imagination and of pleasure.
Moreover, our proposed three types of switching behaviours supported designers in perception, media and concept levels during designing.
What Assange describes, and what really defines Wikileaks, is a question of perception and differing concepts of morality.
Also possible mediating factors on symptom perception and illness concepts such as anxiety should be integrated in future study designs.
GNH is a blend of hard numbers, subjective perceptions and virtually unmeasurable concepts, but it works pretty well in Bhutan, provided you're not among the 17% of the population – mostly Hindus of Nepalese origin – expelled from the country in the 90s.
Causation, according to various contemporary philosophers, is required for the analysis of metaphysical concepts such as persistence, scientific concepts such as explanation and disposition, epistemic concepts such as perception and warrant, ethical concepts such as action and responsibility, mental concepts such as functional role and conceptual content, and linguistic concepts such as reference.
