Sentences with phrase «human sense perception»

This sea - change in visual culture prompted Benjamin's observation that «the manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well.»

Furthermore, human sense perception is only to be understood as a condition of the possibility of intellectual cognition, posited by spirit in contradistinction to itself but for itself, and consequently once again affirms the kinship of spirit and matter.

1.300 - 318) called monads, firsts, or «feeling qualities,» are omitted from the account of things found in physics and chemistry, except for the methodological point that we detect the presence of the various magnitudes and spatio - temporal structures by our qualitative human sense perceptions, visual or tactual.

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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.

In the development of human thought and perception, the shift from primary orality to vowelised literacy involves the movement from an implicit sense of things in concrete operational thinking to explicit concepts articulated through abstract thinking.

Given the largeness of reality and the relative nature of human perception, education needs to point beyond what is empirically measurable and to invoke a sense of awe and wonder.

This revelation is natural, in the sense that it is part and parcel of both the creation and human nature, and it is general, inasmuch as it is a functional component in all human perception and cognition.

Very roughly, «body» refers to material things perceptible to the senses, «mind» refers to the processes of perception, reasoning, and learning, and «spirit» refers to human self - awareness and freedom of choice.

In a stroke, then, Russell is able to dispense with Meinong's ontological conundrum and the ontological argument, while providing as adequate an account as anyone has ever been able to offer of how normal human perception and sense data relate to the «objects» of physics.

Basic to this discovery is the recognition that human experience is not exhausted by the external sense perceptions of which science and history are in their different forms the critical analysis.

about our powerlessness to penetrate in this sense beyond the primitive vision shared by the earliest human minds; that is to say, the impossibility of our advancing a step towards the direct or indirect perception of all that is hidden behind the veil of tangible experience!

But the whole array of our instances leads to a conclusion something like this: It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call «something there,» more deep and more general than any of the special and particular «senses» by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.

Buchler's theory of perception and judgment articulates, in a descriptive sense, what is categorically distinctive of human nature, or rather for Buchler, human process.

Nevertheless, the layman's common - sense view of reality is baffled by such conundrums as the nature of time and space, the reality of human freedom, quantum jumps in physics, or the claim of modern science that colors are not really present in the objects of perception but only in the mind of the beholder.

I do indeed stand on the distinction between a priori (or metaphysical) and empirical in the sense given this distinction by Popper, except that, whereas Popper defines empirical as «conceivably falsifiable by observation» and apparently limits observation to certain forms of human perception, I sometimes include divine perception (in Whitehead's language, God's physical prehensions).

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.

Underlying the five senses is a rich yet chaotic and vague pre-conceptual mode of perception wherein the given world enters the organic unity of chemical, visceral, and psychic processes called the human body.

That is to say, the lens shows a wide view, but still offers a sense of human - like depth perception: as close objects come into focus, far away objects look blurry.

Of all the human senses, the visual system — the network that turns light into neural signals that create the perception of sight — is the most studied and best understood.

Her work uses unconventional materials and, at times, methods to engage the senses of the human body to reconfigure biological, political, and personal perceptions.

The dissection of the upper space along vertical axes gives rise to a new form of perception, one that takes the human body as the reference point for its articulation, yet also adds a sense of uncanniness through the disproportional ceiling height.

In this sense, they isolate a specifically human capacity for visual perception while divorcing it from meaning.

Sensing Spaces considers architecture from the angle of the human encounter: how vision, touch, sound and memory play a role in our perceptions of space, proportion, materials and light.

Currently fusing fluid sketching and charcoal work styles from his past with spray paint and distress techniques that he has developed over the years, the viewer will notice major differences in genre between the 2009 and 2010 works: while the current pieces dive into a more figurative and abstract realm, the 2009 series of paintings «With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility» focuses more on a comic - themed visualization of the all - too - human defects of character, faulty perception, and skewed sense of humor.

The ground surface is only the surface if you're a human, but humans aren't photons and our sense perception labelling of things is arbitrary.

- Carol LaFayette and Frederic I. Parke, Texas A&M University: Extending the range of human senses: Ultraviolet and ultrasonic perception with Microsoft HoloLens

Allport also considered these qualities characteristic of mentally healthy individuals: capacity for self - extension; capacity for warm human interactions; demonstrated emotional security and self - acceptance; realistic perceptions of one's own talents and abilities; sense of humor, and a unifying philosophy of life such as religion.