Sentence examples for thought and perception from inspiring English sources

Once again it is useful to begin from Kant, who distinguished two uses of the imagination: the first in ordinary thought and perception, the second in aesthetic experience.

"Normal human thought and perception," Shelley Taylor writes in her 1989 book, "Positive Illusions," "is marked not by accuracy but by positive self-enhancing illusions about the self, the world, and the future.

Between interrogations, he considers his childhood in Bay Ridge, his Ivy League education, his former girlfriend; presented out of order, the scenes glow with specific thought and perception, a testament to Amar's interior life (while Alice often made her own scenes feel uninhabited).

But by demonstrating for the first time that brain waves are important for perception, Dr Stopfer and Dr Laurent have given a boost to the synchronisation theory of perceptual binding.The evidence linking mammalian thought and perception with nerve-cell synchronisation remains controversial.

Most importantly, though, ideologies shape and mould human thought and perception.

And in our own era it has been reinvented and renamed, as the adverbial theory of thought and perception.

"It clears your thoughts and perceptions.

Back at home, he runs thoughts and perceptions by his wife.

What is the vanishing point where scattered thoughts and perceptions converge and yet are kept duly distinct?

He is extremely good at characterising the logical way in which the thoughts and perceptions of a thinking man progress, climax and begin again with another subject.

The theory of linguistic relativity posits that language itself the specific tongue that we happen to speak shapes our thoughts and perceptions.