Sentence examples for present perceptions from inspiring English sources

"We revise history and make it fit into our present perceptions".

Whereas the entailments of linguistic metaphors reorganize present perceptions, the entailments of nonlinguistic metaphors restructure the present contexts of artifacts.

His theory of memory is a direct realist theory because, according to Reid, memory is not directed towards any present perceptions, ideas, or impressions stored or otherwise.

Thus, at the ultimate level, the appetitions are not so much the tendencies impelling a person towards voluntary motions of the human body (although at the level of well-founded phenomena this may indeed be the case) but rather tendencies arising out of present perceptions (present appearances) towards new perceptions.

In this Persian poem we have a mirror of the social conditioning of human thought: altering the unfamiliar or the "other" to make it acceptable and to fit with present perceptions.

It is not inconceivable that much early change has gone undetected as a result of this poor signal to noise approach and that our present perceptions of time of onset of pathology and sequence of events are incorrect.

His stories show us instances where a doctor makes snap judgments that are wrong — and right; where past cases distort present perception; where rapport with, or dislike for, a patient alters diagnosis or care.

Memories are descending down the cone from the past to the present perception and action.

Locke offers a non-metaphorical account of memory when he claims that memory consists of two perceptions: a present perception and a belief about that present perception, namely that one has enjoyed the perception before.

At the summit of the cone, "S," we have the image of my body which is concentrated into a point, into the present perception.

A first-personal belief that one's present perception is qualitatively similar to a perception one had in the past requires remembering having had that previous perception and recalling its quality and character.