Sentences with phrase «at least our perception of»

not a false dichotomy... you may object to the terminology but your answer says * we * are the ones who are broken (or at least our perception of reality).

While the jury is still out on whether or not Governor Cuomo's Buffalo Billion has delivered the economic resurgence it promised, there is at least a perception of progress.

Slow, deep and conscious breathing reduces stress, which in turn relieves pain (or at least the perception of it).

This suggests that the achievement gap, at least the perception of the gap that exists both in the traditional environment and online environment may be minimized through the adaptation of synchronous technologies in online higher education.

Amazon does offer something its competitors have a more difficult time with: rock bottom prices, or at least the perception of them.

Though shallow, still comforting, offers parameters or at least the perception of sides,» she says.

A quick approval in the EU signifies a shift in how Microsoft is viewed by regulators in the region, and perhaps how its dominance (or at least the perception of it) has significantly altered in the new technology landscape.

Without trust, or at least the perception of trust, no financial systems can exist.

Not exact matches

«To optimize their perception of you and get the outcome you want, perform the entire presentation aloud at least once, and the opening and closing at least three times,» she suggests.

But even among the best funds, few have topped the key threshold of 16 %, fueling a nagging perception that the rewards of investing in the Asia - Pacific region are not making up for the risks — at least not yet.

At least, those were some of the perceptions surrounding schema markup.

When I realize that the particular conclusions generated by the serious reflection that arises from such assumptions have only the authority of those assumptions, then I feel free to turn to another philosophy that includes among its data human persons and their interactions; for my perception of reality is such that these seem to me at least as real and ultimate as sense data and mechanical relations.

I hope it is clear that, at least in my own perception, I am not falsifying the central message of the Bible or even exaggerating the importance within it of this motif.

I have suggested that the language of religion may be understood as representing in a mythic and symbolic way at least a portion of the qualitative data given to us in primary perception.

Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

Leibniz almost got the point in the very time of the first microscopic perceptions of micro-organisms, but he could not free himself from the mechanical model and so, though he held that every individual at least feels, he did not attribute even the least creativity, originative power, to any individual other than God, who thus had no proper place in the system.

Despite Whitehead's protestations against Greek conceptions of perception (and he obviously had Aristotle principally in mind), we seem to have here, so far at least, a theory of sensing in many respects quite similar to the Whiteheadian.

In at least two basic respects our experience of responsibility differs profoundly from Hume's «perceptions.»

At least in such moments Jesus» weighting of values — his perception of the relative importance of things and persons, of the self and others, of motives and actions, of past, present, and future — was from the perspective given in his prehension of God.

That imagination — fired, at least during the great middle years, by intense moral and religious perception — made Greene's fiction the best - realized portrayal in its time of the drama of the human soul.

But leaving that aside for the moment, we have at least shown that the perception of two notes together makes possible a different conception of space and spaces from that which is typical of, say, two colors together — a different way of thinking about space.

As a first approximation, we may say that the poetic function points to the obliterating of the ordinary referential function, at least if we identify it with the capacity to describe familiar objects of perception or the objects which science alone determines by means of its standards of measurement.

The difficulty of drawing a line between the «inner» and «outer» physical aspects of perception is compounded by the fact that a percipient event, at least among «higher» organisms, is both forwardly and backwardly oriented.

The problem of perception and the problem of power are one and the same, at least so far as perception is reduced to mere prehension of actual entities.

As the general quality of public education has declined, at least in public perception, and as the power of the youth culture in public schools has increased, many more parents seek private schools for their children, and many of these schools are connected with churches.

Such symbols may for some of us at least partially express what we feel obscurely in our primary perception as a universal purposiveness.

Perhaps at the level of primary perception human as well as other kinds of occasions already have a causal «awareness» of this pervasive sensitivity and at least a vague sense of being deeply felt themselves.

At least this is the case with normal perception, where we both have a sensory image and project it onto some region of the environment.2 Whitehead charges both the empiricists and Descartes with having isolated the experiencing subject from the world by leaving the body out of their interpretations.

People do very important things, they pursue matters of ultimate concern, in churches that offer «somewhat different ideals and practices than liberal society can... Indeed, this perception of difference is much of what attracts people to religion or, at least, to church and synagogue.»

I heard about this study on self - perception, or at least, the study says that was the original point of it, how does our self - perception match up with what is really happening.

Modern scientific research shows that salting the eggplant is not actually removing most of the bitter compounds, but the added salt at least decreases the human tongue's perception of bitterness, very much like how adding a little bit of salt to bad coffee improves the taste.

When more than 90 % of girls want to change at least one aspect of their physical appearance, it's clear that our perception of beauty is distorted.

All of this attention only adds further weight to the long - standing perception that Brits just aren't «good» at learning languages - a commonly held belief that is just not true - every one of us is an expert linguist - after all, we have all done pretty well at learning at least one language - our mother tongue.

The perception of Cuomo as ruthless has been around since at least the 1980s, when he was working for his father's gubernatorial campaign, and the press dubbed him the «prince of darkness» for his take - no - prisoners style.

«It feeds a public perception that legislators, at least some of them, are legislators so they can cash in on the contacts they make.»

The dress is the first documented example of one image that causes at least two different color perceptions.

In other words, older adults who did more moderate to vigorous physical activity perceived less facilitation of pain, while those who did at least some activity were better able to block pain perceptions.

While the visible signs of this may not be particularly apparent, it is thought that they have at least a subconscious effect on people's perception of their beauty.

«Crime has increased — or at least there's a perception of increased crime,» he says.

But new research suggests that ravens — birds singled out by many cultures as a symbol of intelligence and wisdom — share at least some of the human ability to think abstractly about other minds, adapting their behavior by attributing their own perceptions to others.

«However, a recent study by other researchers shows that this perception is false, at least in the context of online social networks.

Your map in Figure 3a (and the cover of Nature) gives the casual reader the perception that all of Antarctica has exhibited a warming trend from 1957 - 2006, when in fact, it seems that at least one location, direct, local observations indicate otherwise.

An emerging body of research on face perception suggests that getting to the top of the corporate ladder may depend, at least in part, on the structure of a person's face... More

A representative of Revival, manufacturer of soy - based meal replacements, complained that «negative perceptions» about soy had cost the company at least one million dollars in sales last year, perhaps an early glimpse of a less - than - rosy future for soy.

Most people have visited or travelled to The Big Apple; or at the very least they have some perception of New York.

That certainly didn't help his perception of the film at the time, but over the course of six years, it eventually became clear that there's at least some merit in the less than well - received comic book movie.

This should, in theory, be easier than the first two times, or at least that's the common perception of people who theorize about such matters without having experienced them.

Or, at least, that's the common perception of the staple of many a teenybopper magazine cover, a result of his appearances in popular youth - aimed films such as I Know What You Did Last Summer and Cruel Intentions.

A school was coded as systematically assessing pupil progress if at least two thirds of teachers on the survey perceived this to be an attribute of their school, and if comments in the case studies and / or interviews supported this perception.

The development of the Pennsylvania Core Standards signifies more of a political statement in response to perceptions of federal meddling in state issues (at least as according to news reports at the time).