Sentence examples for we perceive only from inspiring English sources

Thus, we perceive only about a half-point difference between Mr. Obama's performance in the battlegrounds and his national figures.

But this leads to a another question: Why do we perceive only one world, not many?

Do we perceive only fleeting qualities (dharma), as Buddhists tend to say, or qualifiers as qualifying qualificanda (a lotus as qualified by being-blue), as say realist Nyāya and Mīmāṃsā?

We can perceive only what we see; thus, sight is the most important sense in landscape design.

Thus, premises (1) and (2) are replaced by the claims that (1′) we mediately perceive ordinary objects, while (2′) we immediately perceive only ideas.

We may perceive only a limited part of the problem, or we may even see only the end results of some distant event, as is the ripple effect through space and time of traffic problems.

Applying Bacon's theory to epistemology, Crathorn asserts that we have no direct access to things in the external world and that we immediately perceive only their mental likenesses or representations, i.e., their species.

We stand at the beginning of a new era of sensorial social networks where we will perceive only information which is relevant to us.

However, as Descartes notes, we can perceive only appearances.

If the veil of ideas objection succeeds against sense-data theories, it might also rule out the theory that we directly perceive only surfaces.

Only because ideas lack these characteristics is Hume able to reason from the claim that mind-independent tables are not immediate objects of awareness to his stated conclusion above that we immediately perceive only ideas or representations.