"Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception," he wrote, "so does a man develop in himself spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him".
Perception is the window through which we understand all information about our environment, and therefore deficits in perception due to disease, injury, stroke or aging can have significant negative impacts on individuals' lives.
Aristotle was a student of the natural world, and, unlike Plato, he assigned a much more important role to perception as the route through which humans gain access to that world.
Perception is the process through which we collect the "facts" and information on which we base our opinions.
However, the one thing we do have complete control over is our perception -- the lens through which we choose to see ourselves and the world.
Thought that comes to mind quickly without much personal reflection is a consequence derived from intuition, commonsense through perceptions, which is often roughly translated as 'feeling or to look inside'.
His cadence, his grave startlements, his fine sharpness of perception are a transfusing needle through which the flagging blood of his characters flows for our own heart.
Our study points to several ways through which favourable perception of entrepreneurial ability can be influenced within a given context.
This has placed greater emphasis on understanding the processes through which self-perception and external feedback interact to influence professional development.
In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Locke argued that ideas come from two "fountains" of experience: sensation, through which the senses convey perceptions into the mind, and reflection, whereby the mind works with the perceptions, forming ideas.
