Sentence examples for perceptual acquaintance from inspiring English sources

Wright claims that the traditional Cartesian sceptical argument does not rely on the impossibility of direct perceptual acquaintance with the world.

So one epistemic value of religious emotions is that of bringing the subject into perceptual acquaintance with truths as the religious tradition conceives them.

Mackie plainly does not take these to be individually necessary: facts about subatomic particles, for example, may qualify as objective in virtue of figuring in explanatory hypotheses even though they cannot be objects of perceptual acquaintance.

As dispositions of perception, these virtues have the value of putting their possessor in direct perceptual acquaintance with moral aspects of reality: her indebtedness for gifts, the evil of her actions and the forgiveness of God, and the distress of her fellows and the relation of that distress to the life of Christ.

Alternatively, some acquaintance theorists take perceptual or sensory experience to involve acquaintance with universals, and hope thereby to avoid problems with both the sense datum theory and the adverbial theory.

Although our perceptual experiences seem to grant us an acquaintance with the facing surfaces of material objects, sensa are the only items we are acquainted with.

'To feel' in this case refers to a kind of awareness one has of oneself independent of the sensations of the outside world... Like perceptual feeling it is a kind of direct awareness and so a kind of knowledge by acquaintance".

It's a perceptual issue.

The perceptual warping intensified by the hour.

I'm alone in the Perceptual Cell.

"Delete them," the acquaintance responded.