"Until Goldman resolves its legal issues, the company and the stock are vulnerable to all sorts of perceptions, real or perceived," said Michael Mayo, an analyst with Credit Agricole Securities.
At one point in the dialogue On Sentiments (Mendelssohn's second publication but first publication on aesthetic matters), one of the protagonists differentiates three sorts of pleasure: sensuous, beautiful, and intellectual (a differentiation which approximates respectively the three sorts of perceptions elaborated by Leibniz and Wolff, among others, namely, confused, clear, and distinct).
It is this sort of perception, and writing, that makes "History of the Present" essential reading.
This sort of perception takes modesty; strong personalities distort the information field around them.
The example is pretty basic — the sort of perception that screenwriters and executives have long reached intuitively, acknowledged Mr. Perez, who spoke over a laptop full of fancy graphics at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel last month.
"I think it has less to do with the statements we've made, which I think were basically accurate and reflect reality, than it does with the fact that there's a constant sort of perception, if you will, that's created because what's newsworthy is the car bomb in Baghdad".
He is rejecting only D1's claim that knowledge is that sort of perception.
For if self-knowledge is to be construed as a sort of perception of inner states or events that are (by the special faculty of introspection or by the "refulgence" of consciousness) "visible" to me but not to others, then Cartesianism, though seeming to leave knowledge of our own minds intact, instead presents an untenable picture of what this "knowledge" can be.
"It's a bit shocking, but every [Asian-American person] I know has had to deal with some sort of perception based on image," she said.
