Sentences with phrase «sense perception»

Usually what stands out most vividly in our feeling is the immediate past, and this immediate past constitutes the data of sense perception.

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.

Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information.

That is already a scientific, biological level understanding that goes well beyond ordinary sense perception.

In the book, he explains how space and time are forms of animal sense perception, rather than external physical objects.

Together they indicate the great integrative power of Weil's mind, as she links such apparently disparate matters as sense perception and war.

In returning to some of Benjamin's essays I was reminded that «the tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the «state of emergency» of which we live, is not an exception but the rule,» and that the «mode human sense perception changes with humanity's entire mode of existence.»

[Referring to types of truth which sense perception is incapable of grasping.]

Explanations of time by reference to space belong to this domain (and such explanations may be regarded as analogous to explaining a perception of color in terms of the joint action of other [non-visual] sense perceptions).

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.

They are opposed to each other only if we make sense perception our fundamental access to reality or if we reject a hierarchical conception of the universe.

The ecstatic element in classical prophetism, insofar as it exists at all, is largely confined to tile prophets» profound concentration, which may result in the suspension of normal consciousness and the total, if brief, interruption of normal sense perception.6

In general, taking the objects for philosophical analysis from the data of sense perception leaves us in the grip of substance thinking even when we acknowledge that we can not discover substances in or through our sensory experience.

It is true that for Whitehead also sense perception involves the detached form.

To my mind, however, this is the only interpretation that renders all the Aristotelian passages on sense perception intelligible.

Consequently, our notion of physical reality suffers from our taking sense perception too one - sidedly as the foundation of cosmological speculation.

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.

It is the function of the secondary pole of perception (in the mode of «presentational immediacy») to project the spatially clear and distinct objects of sense perception onto the background of the temporal series of occasions that are vaguely assimilated by primary perception.

Sense perception puts these latter into quantifiable focus but only by refining them out of a primary matrix of «qualitative» fuzziness.

Whitehead rejects any notions of primary substances underlying sense perception, as well as the harsh subject - object division of experience, Instead of a simple bifurcation of mind and nature, Whitehead recognizes with the onset of the new developments of physics, that the subject as active and the object as passive is not an accurate depiction of reality (CN 27).

The lack of such contact [240] in the higher forms of sense perception finally forces Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas to give up their principle that sensitive - spiritual knowledge is always grounded in corresponding real processes.11

What we call sense perception is a rather late and somewhat abstract version of a much more global feeling we have, at a visceral level, of the entire universe entering into our experience.

And since nature (see above) is that which we perceive in sense - perception, Whitehead has obviously now got to go on to see what sense perception itself, seen homogeneously, look / like.

MM: And yet what is interesting, what captured me, was that things could be said about this raw sense perception, especially about reiterating and imprinting and things conformating, but never quite repeating exactly the same — no two perceptions of a cat exactly repeat.

When describing this theory, Robert Lanza explains that what we call space and time are forms of animal sense perception rather than external physical objects.

Both foreground sense perception and readily make use of the authenticity of lived experience.»

«Scientific objects» are theoretical entities, in that the abstract mathematical picture they present is very different from anything which could be given in sense perception; hence the plausibility of views which only give them meaning within the context of a scientific theory.

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.»

According to the digest of his theology edited by Wilhelm and Scannell, he taught as follows: «Considering the glorified state of the victim on the one hand, and on the other the manner in which the human memory is awakened by sense perceptions, it seems impossible to devise a better commemoration of the death on the Cross.

Accepting space and time as forms of animal sense perception (that is, as biological), rather than as external physical objects, offers a new way of understanding everything from the microworld (for instance, the reason for strange results in the two - slit experiment) to the forces, constants, and laws that shape the universe.

Secondary perception deals with spatially clear and distinct objects of sense perception.

Beauty is felt when there is some congruence between the aesthetic object and the observer's pattern of sense perception and related responses.

And this brings us now to the first Aristotelian characterization of sense perception: sensing is a type of «being acted upon.»

Whitehead suggests that teachers should facilitate what he calls the student's «concrete vision» by allowing the student to utilize knowledge: «By utilizing an idea I mean relating it to that stream compounded of sense perceptions, feelings, hopes, desires and of mental activities adjusting thought to thought, which forms our life» (AE 3).

Our sense perception, however, refers us only to inorganic aggregates or to living and conscious «societies» of these occasions.

The first five of these types of natural occurrence are easily accessible to sense perception (aided perhaps by instruments of observation), the sixth, however, is not available to ordinary sense perception.