Sentences with phrase «human perception instead»

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He was not, for example, particularly hospitable to the American realists» attempts to reconceive the very notion of experience upon which empiricism should be founded, preferring instead to join Moore and others in England in a virtually uncritical acceptance of the older «commonsense» notion of experience as human (and usually visual) perception derived from their seventeenth - century cultural predecessors Locke and Hume.2

Even as he's evoking insect life in terms that recall the domesticity of The Wind in the Willows, he wants to write about the natural world as if he had access to it independently of our perception of it in human terms» as if he were capable of seeing the Insect - in - Itself instead of the insect as seen by a man.

Instead they focused upon the subjective perceptions and internal anxieties of the human person as their point of departure, which for Jaki was all very well as a second step in theological dialogue but not the first.

Instead, they created a process of duplicating their surroundings that is more akin to genuine human perception.

Instead, the perception of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as inferior humans seems to have prevailed, perpetuated by government policies of segregation from and later assimilation into Western culture within the last 100 years.