The pioneering animal behaviorist Konrad Lorenz was so convinced of the perceptive capacities of crows and their relatives that he wore a devil costume when handling jackdaws.
Nevertheless, it is not by turning to the city idea that we have known, or feeling nostalgia for past architecture but, rather, by accepting that this phase of bewilderment has to be surpassed, that we can regenerate our perceptive capacities and renew the gaze with which we usually grasp what is considered as unknown.
It is akin to restoring vision to a creature with impaired sight, making it whole and allowing it to function at the full limits of its perceptive and analytical capacity.
Although Scott is a good guy who brings high-grade skills to his detective work, it's Maggie who holds us captive, enthralled by Crais's perceptive depiction of her amazing capacities.
In a telephone interview, Jackson described how search engines, instant messaging and smart phones, combined with the addictive allure of digital multitasking, have together eroded our capacity for deep perceptive attention.
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She was perceptive, wise and kind, and had an astonishing capacity for remembering the names of students, even after very brief encounters.
A spellbinding orator and a passionate and perceptive writer, he advocated for various sociopolitical reforms in his capacity as party leader, including the abolition of the caste system, the adoption of Hindi as India's national language, and stronger protection of civil liberties.
This approach grants each particle a capacity to identify its environment using both its own clock and perceptive area.
Among the tenets of so-called Latin Averroism was the view, first held by Averroes, that the move from perceptive acts to intellection is not one from a lower to a higher set of capacities or faculties of the human soul.
Perception is the capacity of the soul which distinguishes animals from plants; indeed, having a perceptive faculty is definitive of being an animal (De Sensu 1, 436b10 12); every animal has at least touch, whereas most have the other sensory modalities as well (De Anima ii 2 413b4–7).
