Sentence examples for perceptive faculty from inspiring English sources
This is Aristotle's meaning when he claims: "the perceptive faculty is in potentiality such as the object of perception already is in actuality" and that when something is affected by an object of perception, "it is made like it and is such as that thing is" (De Anima ii 5, 418a3 6).
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).
Against the determinism both of those who believe in progress and of the apocalyptics, Calvin erects his utopia of the present, founded on the subject's perceptive faculties.
Such intelligent appreciation of the hammer in one's direct experience of it amounts to an aesthetic valuation of it, insofar as the experience itself is savored and one's perceptive faculties are not merely identifying instrumentally valuable features of the hammer for future reference but actively engaged in appreciating the aptness of its design and materials.
Deborah Black, discerning that memory has a perceptive as well as retentive role, describes memory as "the faculty by which we grasp the individual as such".
The soul, he argues, develops faculties, such as the vegetative, the nutritive, the perceptive, when associating with the body, so that it can carry out the functions of an animated body (De virtute morali 442B, 450E, 451A, Plat. Quest. 107E 1009B; Karamanolis 2006, 111 113, Baltes 2000).
(Like any large artist, Yehoshua creates a world where judgment is only one more faculty, and not really empowered. It is irony that commands: for Rivlin; the stubbornly perceptive Hagit is his own Orientalist).
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.
