Sentence examples for perceptual encounter from inspiring English sources

We learn about the world only from our perceptual encounter with it; nothing is revealed to us beforehand.

Lipps conceives of empathy as a psychological resonance phenomenon that is triggered in our perceptual encounter with external objects.

Moreover, empathy outside the realm of a direct perceptual encounter involves some appreciation of the other person's emotion as an appropriate response to his or her situation.

The inattentional blindness effects show that there are attentional demands that a thinker has to meet before his perceptual encounter with things can provide knowledge of them.

In these contexts, the term "empathy" refers to any mental activity on part of the observer that is triggered in the perceptual encounter with an external stimulus and that has to be understood as being constitutive for our comprehension of an object qua object.

The evidence from mirror neurons and the fact that in perceiving other people we use very different neurobiological mechanisms than in the perception of physical objects does suggest that in our primary perceptual encounter with the world we do not merely encounter physical objects.

So Plato turns to showing that we cannot have acquired knowledge of the Form Equality from perceptual encounters.

Most of us will give in to the ordinary beliefs generated through our perceptual encounters with the sensible world, as well as those resulting from the conversations we have with one another.

It shows how Lakoff and Johnson's theory of conceptual metaphor helps to explain the confusing experiences caused by these performances in terms of how they confront us with what they describe as the "metaphors we live by": the systems of metaphors that structure our bodily perceptual-cognitive encounter with what we find ourselves confronted with.

This passage seems to characterize knowing (zhi) quite narrowly, as the ability to recognize something encountered in perceptual experience.

What about perceptual experiences where what we encounter is not up to us? Nicholas returns to the wax, asking us to imagine wax informed by mind in the way mind informs our capacities for sensing and proposing that mind so imagined could "form the wax to every shape presented to it".