Sentence examples for were to be perceived from inspiring English sources

Importantly, the differences in exploratory behaviour have not only been observed when different properties were to be perceived (Arzamarski et al., 2010; Riley et al., 2002), but also when participants learned to attune to a more useful informational variable to perceive a certain property (Arzamarski et al., 2010; Michaels et al., 2008).

For any nonthinking being, esse est percipi ("to be is to be perceived").

"Our biggest danger is to be perceived as not talking about immigration," he says.

The Helmet of Horror by Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield 288pp, Canongate, £12 Esse est percipi: "To be is to be perceived".

We thought the single most effective way for the president to be re-elected was to be perceived as the president".

To wear obviously outmoded clothes is to be perceived as eccentric at best – sad, inadequate, or downright weird at worst.

Berkeley argued ingeniously that esse est percipi (aut percipere), "to be is to be perceived (or to perceive)"—everything real is either an idea or a mind (see idealism).

To argue for tea is to be perceived as this chopping board – the worst thing, in a room of the worst things.

George Jochnowitz Greenwich Village Beauty Pageants for New York's Chinese To the Editor: Any woman can readily identify with how degrading it is to be perceived as a sex object.

The idealistic view that for these items to be is to be perceived is rejected as fallacious.

Berkeley holds that there are no such mind-independent things, that, in the famous phrase, esse est percipi (aut percipere) — to be is to be perceived (or to perceive).