Sentences with phrase «primary perception of the world»

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The way to the recovery of perception is accomplished here through the heightening of things, making the familiar more alive, more potent, more splendid than it is in the «Primary World.»

With primary perception there is a pervasive and vague feeling of the influence of the world upon our being and becoming.

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).

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).

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.

The senses present the world to our consciousness with great vividness, but in doing so they filter out much of what we gather in through our primary perception.

In relation to primary perception the data of sense perception are rather late and abstract refinements of the material that is felt in our primary experience of the world.

It is the function of religious symbols in particular to bring the inherent purposefulness of the universe out of the mistiness of primary perception and into a mode of representation that can be correlated with the world of sense perception.

Symbols stand somewhere between the clear but trivial world of secondary perception and the cloudy but important world of primary perception.

As the occasions of the world - process (including those of our own experience) appropriate the power of a divine ordering principle and ground of novelty at the primary pole of perception, they are not forced into a deterministic response to God's influence.

According to critic and curator John Coplans, who organized Wheeler's first solo exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1968, Wheeler's «primary aim as [an artist] is to reshape or change the spectator's perception of the seen world.

According to critic and curator John Coplans, Wheeler's «primary aim as [an artist] is to reshape or change the spectator's perception of the seen world.

Of Wheeler's works, John Coplans, curator of the artist's 1968 solo exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum, noted, «they clearly reveal a highly mature esthetic and demonstrate that he is a satellite of no other artist... [Wheeler's] primary aim as [an artist] is to reshape or change the spectator's perception of the seen worlOf Wheeler's works, John Coplans, curator of the artist's 1968 solo exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum, noted, «they clearly reveal a highly mature esthetic and demonstrate that he is a satellite of no other artist... [Wheeler's] primary aim as [an artist] is to reshape or change the spectator's perception of the seen worlof the artist's 1968 solo exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum, noted, «they clearly reveal a highly mature esthetic and demonstrate that he is a satellite of no other artist... [Wheeler's] primary aim as [an artist] is to reshape or change the spectator's perception of the seen worlof no other artist... [Wheeler's] primary aim as [an artist] is to reshape or change the spectator's perception of the seen worlof the seen world.