For strict empiricists this definition has the implication that the human mind is passive a "tabula rasa" that receives impressions and more or less records them as they are.
having the power of directing the movements of the adjoining parts, acts like the brain of one of the lower animals; the brain being seated within the anterior end of the body, receiving impressions from the sense organs and directing the several movements".
We have to be very clear on this point: that the response is to the image, not to the man... It's not what's there that counts, it's what's projected... It's not the man we have to change, but rather the received impression.
When you receive twenty thousand impressions in the course of a few hours, as the 49ers do, the signal-to-noise ratio is necessarily high.
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Those who read the popular literature on science and religion, such as Tong's article, may receive the impression that modern physics has refuted the picture of atoms and the void proposed by Democritus and other Greek philosophers millennia ago.
I hope that readers of Nora Krug's essay did not receive the impression from my quoted remarks that I found fault with The New Yorker's fact-checking system.
Voters may receive the impression that the film is widely believed to be worthy of Oscar consideration and be encouraged to join the herd, while the talent may intuit that such marketing is everywhere and, compounding the vanity effect, increase their own efforts.
Within space God places matter that in clear contrast to the conception of Aristotle and Averroes, who defined it as privation and as a pure ens rationis, is regarded by Campanella as a physical entity, deprived of form, shape and action, but capable of being extended, divided, united and of assuming any shape, just as wax can receive an impression from any seal.
You receive an impression of cornflower-blue eyes set deep in wrinkly reticulation, her hair white and fine as feathers - a voice rasps: "My name's Ethel Nairn, I'm sorry to intrude but I've come to speak to you about the residents' association".
