Sentence examples for world of perception from inspiring English sources

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In the real world of perception and marketing, a fish called "slimehead" — a real name, by the way — is probably not going to fly off the menu.

What Wordsworth is to the world of perception, De Quincey is to the dream world, giving us concrete structures in place of mental static, structures impossible to describe except in the sentences he built to accommodate their labyrinthine organization.

"I have to deal in a world of perception and symbols," Mr. Nelson said, "and when I'm begging each year for appropriations for Everglades restoration and suddenly the perception is, 'Well, the Everglades is making a lot of progress,' it's tying my hands behind my back in trying to get the federal share".

To avoid these absurdities it is necessary to posit the intelligible world (the world of the Forms) alongside the sensible world (the world of perception).

However, what is meant by world (loka) in this context is not an external reality of physical entities and processes, but the phenomenal world of perception (lokasaṃjñā) that arises in dependence upon the proliferating activities of mind.

As long as one realizes that the world of perception is not genuinely real, and cannot therefore be the object of knowledge, it may be possible for there to be justified belief about the cosmos.

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While the communications people operate almost exclusively in the world of perceptions, the field people operate in the world of hard data.

As a result of its scenario planning, the New York Board of Trade decided in the 1990s to build a second trading floor outside the World Trade Centre, a decision that kept it going after September 11th 2001.In an article in Harvard Business Review in 1985, Wack wrote:Scenarios deal with two worlds; the world of facts and the world of perceptions.

Therefore, the mind did not merely record order in nature, as the Empiricists insisted; rather, the mind organized the world of perceptions so that, reflecting the divine reason, it could deduce the system of the world from a few basic principles.

Open eyes experience the material world of perceptions; closed eyes savor the world of imagination.

As Yerxa noted earlier in the day, "What I think is so great about why you're here and the work you do, these films open a world of perceptions".

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