Sentence examples for the thing perceived from inspiring English sources

In his Pyrrhonian Discourses Aenesidemus formulated 10 tropes in defense of Skepticism, four suggesting arguments that arise from the nature of the perceiver, two dealing with the thing perceived, and four concerning the relationship between the perceiver and the thing perceived.

In other words, for the multiplicity to have a certain reality and not be illusory, it must somehow be grounded not in the perceiver but in the thing perceived, namely, the infinite substance.

The Greek verb phainesthai ("to seem," or "to appear") does not indicate whether the thing perceived is other than what it appears to be.

Kumārila argues, though, that the problem with such an appeal is that the second-order awareness that the thing perceived is pragmatically efficacious is itself just another cognition.

Perceptual media are in the norm cognitively transparent: they are imperceptible insofar as they transmit without significant alteration information about some relevant properties of the thing perceived through them.

Kevin O'Regan and Alva Noë's rejection of the binding problem 'as, in essence, a pseudo-problem' (O'Regan and Noë, 2001, 967) comes as part of their general attack on the idea that perception requires the representation of the thing perceived.

This was one of the things perceived as setting the Scott brothers apart from the British film establishment.

As aids in reaching knowledge, they are deceptive because they do not bear genuine witness to the actual nature of things perceived.

They may also make the epistemology of mathematics slightly less puzzling, since many structural or pattern-like properties can be instantiated in the things we perceive (we perceive such properties when we recognize a melody played in different keys, for example).

Evolved from Hinduism, the term Māyā refers to all things perceived as being illusory.

The broader background is modernism's fascination with all things perceived as primitive.