Sentence examples for sense faculty from inspiring English sources

They regard perception as a cognitive episode triggered by causal interaction between a sense faculty and an object.

If we admit conceptual awareness as perception, we are forced to accept that a sense faculty is capable of remembering (since perception is a cognition brought about by the functioning of the sense faculty) but that cannot be the case because a sense faculty, being a mere instrument of cognition, is in itself unconscious and cannot remember anything.

A more sophisticated definition is later devised wherein perception is "an ascertainment [of buddhi or intellect] in regard to a sense faculty (Sāṃkhyakārikā 5 in Yuktīdipikā)".

He further suggests that we should not expect a perceptual cognition to arise as soon as there is contact between a sense faculty and its object.

The mind switches from its inactive mode to any of the five-sense-door processes when an object occurs at the "door" of the appropriate sense faculty.

Furthermore, he insists that the mind must be involved in all perceptions since it functions as a link between the sense faculty and the self; the sense faculty is turned on or activated by a connection with the self and, the self as the subject of knowledge is involved in all cognitions.

Science, he argued, can easily dispense with the concept of matter: nature is simply that which human beings perceive through their sense faculties.

Like every instance of consciousness, sensory perception is intentional, encapsulated in the interaction among the sense faculties, their corresponding types of discriminative consciousness, and their appropriate sense objects.

Five-sense-door processes account for sensory perception as information is directly received from the fields of the five physical sense faculties.

Mind-door processes internalize the information received through the sense faculties and characterize the mind that is absorbed in thought or memory.

Mental cognitive awareness is a particular type of consciousness that discerns between the stimuli impinging upon the sense faculties and that emerges when the requisite conditions come together.