Sentences with phrase «perception of the world by»

Although its real use is the existential or metaphysical use of clarifying our original confidence in the worth of life, the terms and categories in which it speaks are not derived from our inner awareness of our existence in relation to totality, but from our external perception of the world by means of our senses.

Not exact matches

Second, AI capabilities are rapidly advancing across perception and cognition fueled by data and knowledge of the world.

I go because I'm a big believer in the importance of «Brand Canada» — the perceptions shared by the world's citizens of what it means to be Canadian.

The dollar in turn is being driven by the changing perceptions of growth between the US and the rest of the world.

The myth is fed by the public's perception of groundbreaking companies as having come out of nowhere to rock the world.

When I was comparing humanity to the animal world, I was referring to the diversity in behaviour and the associated perceptions (assuming animal behaviour is driven by perception of their environment).

Certainly that perception, combined with various corruptions of monasticism so caustically criticized by Erasmus and others, led Reformers such as Luther and Calvin to sharply contrast the monastic call «from the world» with the authentically Christian call «into the world.»

By letting god in on their issues, feelings, whatever, now they feel like they're not alone in whatever «it» is anymore (of course, I think nothings changed at all, accept their perception of the world around them).

This biblical inversion of our ordinary perceptions and expectations, shaped as they are by the world's priorities, cures our astigmatism.

Then there is the more individuated perception of miracle advanced by the romantic world view.

One's perception of a congregation's world view gained from participant observation and guided interviews can be verified by a relatively simple device, a questionnaire that poses questions similar to those asked in the interviews.

When «perception» is limited to the material presented to our minds by the five senses we are by no means dealing yet in a fundamental way with the reality of the world.

Bolter is interested in the ways in which the computer, by the way it works with data, influences our perception of and interaction with the world.

Although many of those concerned for environmental protection are thinking about the natural world simply as it relates to human beings, the leaders of the environmental movement have been moved to perception and action by deeper changes.

If this world, its inherent physical laws, and one's veridical perceptions are a result of one's consciousness, then that consciousness (as a result of neurophysiology) are nothing but impressions left by external stimuli, a result of that consciousness.

I have no doubt that his basic perception of the world is almost inevitably colored profoundly by Japanese Buddhism.

Perception is certainly an activity for the Greek, but it also essentially involves passivity, i.e., being acted upon and altered by the entities of the physical world.

As Walter Lippmann said in his groundbreaking book Public Opinion, humans act in the real world on the basis of the perceptions created increasingly for us by the media's pseudo-environment.

The radicalness of this approach to perception is sharpened by Rosemary Haughton's skepticism about our acceptance of a biblical view of what the world ought to be:

It is not only our perception of the world that is influenced by television, but also our way of perceiving.

The importance of auditory experiences for the interpretation of reality is proven through observation of deaf children... A world without sound is a dead world; when sound is eliminated from our experience, it becomes clear how inadequate and ambiguous is the visual experience if not accompanied by auditory interpretation... Vision alone without acoustic perceptions does not provide understanding.

My perceptions of the fit between piety and learning in the current world of theological education are conditioned by a recent move from one province of that world — Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta — to another, Union Theological Seminary in New York.

Both «symbolic reference» and «propositional feelings» have receptive and imaginative aspects; but, whereas Whitehead emphasized the former, cognitive aspect in his discussion of «symbolic reference,» as a rebuttal to Hume and Kant, he emphasized the latter, creative aspect in his discussion of «propositions,» an emphasis needed to counter «the interest in logic, dominating over-intellectualized philosophers,» among whom «aesthetic delight» is eclipsed by «judgment» (cf. PR 184 - 86 and WH 33) In «symbolic reference» a dim, but indirect, mode of perception («causal efficacy») is combined with a clear, but indirect, mode of perception («presentational immediacy»), which produces a sense of the external world.

First, he distinguishes from classical empiricism a revisionary description of experience according to which sense perception is neither the only nor even the primary mode of experience, but is rather derived from a still more elemental awareness both of ourselves and of the world around us» (PP 78).6 On Ogden's analysis, both the classical and this first type of revisionary empiricism «assume that the sole realities present in our experience, and therefore the only objects of our certain knowledge, are ourselves and the other creatures that constitute the world» (PP 79) 7 With these «two more conventional types of empiricism» he contrasts a «comprehensive» type of revisionary empiricism distinguished from them by its consideration of the possibility (and then also by its claim) that the internal awareness it asserts together with the former revisionary type is «the awareness not merely of ourselves, and of our fellow creatures, but also of the infinite whole in which we are all included as somehow one» (PP 87, 80, 85).

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.

Thus perception, in this primary sense, is perception of the settled world in the past as constituted by its feeling - tones, and as efficacious by reason of those feeling - tones (PR 182, 184).

If by the latter we mean the description of familiar objects of perception or of the objects which science defines by its methods of observation and measurement, then the reference of poetic language projects «ahead» of itself a world in which the reader is invited to dwell, thus finding a more authentic situation in being.

We are often exhorted by scientists and philosophers alike to accept the material given to us by sense perception as though it is the rock - bottom foundation of our knowledge of the physical world, Simultaneously we are told to refrain from coloring neutral sense data over with our subjective wishes and teleological desires.

He is the kind who is really blind to anything outside of his own world view, and he sees everyone colored by his own perception.

He explains that «According to this account, perception in its primary form is consciousness of the causal efficacy of the external world by reason of which the percipient is a concrescence from a definitely constituted datum.

These representations are models of what is going on in the external world, suggested originally by what is given in sense perception, and coming back to this for verification.

A. N. Whitehead (1929) considers the act of perception as the establishment by the subject of its causal relation with its own external world at a particular moment.

He analyzes the development of human consciousness, from its immediate perception of the here and now, to the stage of self - consciousness, the understanding that allows man to analyze the world and order his own actions accordingly.3 Following this is the stage of reason itself, understanding of the real, after which spirit, by means of religions and art, attains the absolute knowledge, the level at which man recognizes in the world the stages of his own reason.

By ignoring direct perceptions in the mode of causal efficacy, we reduce the world experienced to aspects which are immediately presented to the senses and to what we judge to be the possessor of those characteristics.

A remaining problem, then, is to determine the relation of «physical world» in that sense to «physical world» in the sense of something underlying perception, should this latter sense be permissible by Whitehead.

Indeed, even as early as this writing, he acknowledges his uncertainty about the answer to the question of whether the events grasped by the theoretical language of mathematics can be sufficient «to «explain our sensations» (IM 33), or whether the mathematically formulated theory is even in a position to make an adequate reconstruction of other, unrelinquishable references to the world (such as sense perception).

Whitehead risks this double crisis in scientific study by presuming from this point on that our experience of reality issues concretely in a flow of «perceptions, sensations, and emotions,» and that we are induced only by the forms of order in our thought to fancy that we have an immediate experience of a «neat, trim, tidy, exact world» (OT 109, 110).

And a person's religion, thrust upon them at random, also happens to be used by most to guide their actions in many ways based upon those false writings as they use their distorted perceptions of the world to channel and shape what comes forth from each person..

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.

This performative power of words to change a person's way of thinking, by providing a new center of attention whereby the pattern of his perception of facts is changed, by stimulating a way of looking on himself and his world, by evoking a disclosure of meaning for his life, should never be discounted.

As in Pentecostalism the world over, the experience of God is usually accompanied by extraordinary feelings and perceptions, such as speaking in tongues, sobbing, dancing, visions, auditory hallucinations, laughter, or exuberant joy.

«Our behavior is driven by our perception of our world, so if children feel they are not getting enough time and attention from parents then those feelings have to go somewhere and it appears in interaction with their peers,» said Christie - Mizell, an associate professor of sociology and licensed psychologist specializing in family therapy and the treatment of children with mood and behavior disorders.

In primis, the attempt by the Obama and Netanyahu administrations to prevent the participation of major international and regional players, in a bid to further isolate Tehran and strengthen the perception of separation from the rest of the world to the Iranian leadership, and the Iranian people.

The perception of those outside of the Party's membership is that Corbyn only took a «proper» line when dragged to it by the press, public opinion and the views of most of the world's political powers.

Insights into the nuances of depth perception provided by our two eyes» slightly different views of the world

Research done by Dr. Mel Goodale, from the University of Western Ontario, in Canada, and colleagues around the world, is showing that echolocation in blind individuals is a full form of sensory substitution, and that blind echolocation experts recruit regions of the brain normally associated with visual perception when making echo - based assessments of objects.

Your visual system «thinks» this perception is a more economical description of the data than is the vision of independent barber poles scattered in the world in precisely this manner by some mad Martian intent on confusing you.

It is one of a range of activities by which we can expand our perception of the natural world.

I think you can certainly drop it into the big category of physics articles that illuminate the universe by telling us that it is indeed much more deeply complicated and counter intuitive than most of us would think; that when you start to look at the fringes of what we understand about physics and how the world works, you really get the sense that we are locked in [to] certain set of perceptions that do not necessarily apply; that our kind of common sense, everyday [intuitions] are not a very good guide to understanding how the universe can behave at certain scales or under certain conditions.

«Cultural groups in other parts of the world have distinct models of selfhood that are poorly reflected by previous models of culture and self - perceptions.