Word Finder - perceptions

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The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.

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Conscious understanding of something.

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Vision (ability)

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Acuity

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(cognition) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.

Such perceptions dispose the mind to pursue what nature dictates as useful.

Common to all these conditions is the synchronous rise of perceptions of spatial relations between the self and the environment which have not, or have rarely, before arisen in synchronous combination.

The tactual organs of the soles, and the muscular sense organs of limbs and trunk, are originating perceptions that indicate that the self is standing on the solid earth, yet the eyes are at the same time originating perceptions that indicate that the solid earth is far away below the standing self.

Your partner may have their own perceptions of what they find appealing, so you use your best judgment on what you choose for those intimate moments.

It follows, therefore, that the thought alone feels personal identity, when, reflecting on the train of past perceptions that compose a mind, the ideas of them are felt to be connected together and naturally introduce each other.

Perceptions regarding the "me" are notoriously highly charged with "feeling," and the conflict occasions the feeling insufficiently described as "giddiness."

The purpose of this article has been to show that, while the Renaissance implied a new way of regarding the material world and human nature, a new conception of man's destiny and duties on this planet, a new culture and new intellectual perceptions penetrating every sphere of thought and energy, it also involved new reciprocal relations between the members of the European group of nations.

He brings against Bacon, of all men, the accusations of making induction start from the undetermined perceptions of the senses, of using imagination, and of putting a quite arbitrary interpretation on phenomena.

For " our perceptions of the particular existence of finite beings without us " go beyond mere probability, yet they are not purely rational.

There is nothing self-contradictory in the supposition that our perceptions of things external are illusions, although we are somehow unable to' doubt them.

Our knowledge under Locke's fourth category of relations - real existence - includes (a) intuitive perceptions of our own existence; Real exist- (b) demonstrable certainty of the existence of God; and.

While right and wrong, in Price's view, are " real objective qualities " of actions, moral " beauty and deformity " are subjective ideas; representing feelings which are partly the necessary effects of the perceptions of right and wrong in rational beings as such, partly due to an " implanted sense " or varying emotional susceptibility.

These negative perceptions are likely to sway consumers.

This byproduct alters the autistic child's behavior, perceptions, and responses to environment.

Contrary to some perceptions, many of them still did lace in front during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Everyone gets to see their own sketches, based on the perceptions of the other group.

Whether you believe that these perceptions of what's ideal or universal are built into our DNA, or hold the view that fairy tales engender these ideas, classic fairy tales are much more than simple stories and nonsensical rhymes.

Second, they can help advance perceptions of professionalism and trustworthiness.

Starting with " particular perceptions " or isolated ideas let in by the senses, he never advances beyond these " distinct existences."

Both, however, used this influence freely; and, whereas Lotze used the Leibnitzian argument from indivisibility to deduce indivisible elements and souls, Fechner used the Leibnitzian hypotheses of universal perception and parallelism of motions and perceptions, in the light of the .Schellingian identification of physical and psychical, to evolve a world-view (Weltansicht) containing something which was neither Leibnitz nor Schelling.

As a matter of fact, this " mind-stuff " of Clifford is far more like the " petites perceptions " of Leibnitz, from which it is indirectly derived.

He hardly has a formal theory of inference, but implies throughout that it only transcends perceptions, and perceptual realities or phenomena, in order to conclude with ideas, not facts.

In order to make this leap he supposes that we have beyond perceptions a conception of condition.

But what he proceeds to suppose is that, having the conception, and finding that the complex of perceptions needs accounting for, we infer a real condition, e.g.

It will be objected that they are merely possible perceptions.

It is an experimental or observational science, founded on primary or immediate judgments (in his phraseology, perceptions), of relation between facts of intuition; its conclusions are hypothetical only in so far as they do not imply the existence at the moment of corresponding real experience; and its propositions have no exact truth.

The areas of intervening cortex, arriving at structural completion later than the above sense-spheres, are called by some association-spheres, to indicate the view that they contain the neural mechanisms of reactions (some have said "ideas") associated with the sense perceptions elaborated in the several sensese spheres.

Truth, ultimately unknowable, often matters less than perceptions of it.

Magazines then feature these editorials and fashion trends relating to women wearing size four and under, and thus the ingrained perceptions of negativity against plus size models and average size consumers continue to be fed and nurtured.

Even as teacher perceptions of school violence fluctuate throughout the school year, whether you are a teacher or a parent, there are clues that point to a safe school.

He regards this universal experience as the result entirely of intersubjective intercourse, and concludes that its subject is not numerically distinct from the subject of individual experience, but is one and continuous with it, and that its conceptions depend on the perceptions of individual experience.

And, though I have been taught by philosophers that what I immediately touch is an idea, and not matter, yet I have never been able to discover this by the most accurate attention to my own perceptions."

It is realism - but inconsequent and inadequate realism, something like that of Spencer; according, indeed, more knowledge of the distinction between Nature as condition of sensations and God as condition of Nature; but very like in holding that all we know of natural forces is our perceptions.

Such a fashion of disguising difficulties points, not only to an inconsistency in Hume's theory as stated by himself, but to the initial error upon which it proceeds; for these perplexities are but the consequences of the doctrine that cognition is to be explained on the basis of particular perceptions.

Descartes's guarantee of the validity of my clear and distinct perceptions is the veracity of God.

Looking at the opposition between these and the ordinary opinions, we are not surprised that Empedocles notes the limitation and narrowness of human perceptions.

He knows that both animals and men have come into existence within assignable limits of time, and that there was an anterior age when no eye or ear gathered the life of the universe into perceptions.

Do your perceptions of this reality differ?

The respondents' negative perceptions toward the company were consistent with the findings from previous studies.

Schools often reflect, and sometimes reinforce, societal perceptions of young people who are viewed as different.

The India exchange was initiated to explore and challenge perceptions of India.

Chapter 6 describes the students' perceptions and experiences of racism in school.

I wondered this aloud with a psychic clairvoyant recently, who offered the thought that our spiritual perceptions are probably confined to this planet.

This is an important counterweight to some unjustified perceptions that the whole system is failing to function.

Visual sensations must not be confused with visual ' perceptions ', in which interpretation plays an overwhelmingly dominant rôle.

A key purpose of the site is to debunk the conspiracy theories and conspiracy factoids that have dominated public perceptions of the assassination.

The same amount should be drank at half-time, although players may rebel at both intake patterns because of perceptions of stomach fullness.

Can the press warp perceptions and foment too many flimsy hatreds?

Prynne posits a conflict between the iconography available through meditational perceptions of nature, and the iconography of religious art and pious objects.

Intellect which is solely a product of the lower manas has in our age, says HPB, paralyzed spiritual perceptions.