Perceptions

Examples

• Simple perceptions or impressions and ideas are such as admit of no distinction nor separation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• For as to the notion of external existence, when taken for something specially different from our perceptions [Part. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• To us, the perceptions of sense are inseparable from the act of the mind which accompanies them. Plato. The Republic.
• Now as perceptions resolve themselves into two kinds, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But it does not lead to new perceptions of bearings and connections; it limits rather than widens the meaning-horizon. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Consequently no proposition can be intelligible or consistent with regard to objects, which is not so with regard to perceptions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• She constantly evinced these nice perceptions and delicate instincts. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But farther, what must become of all our particular perceptions upon this hypothesis? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It will first be proper to observe a few of those experiments, which convince us, that our perceptions are not possest of any independent existence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is altogether too common to separate perceptions and even ideas from judgments. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I was conscious of nothing but a painful intensity of all familiar perceptions. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• For what is the memory but a faculty, by which we raise up the images of past perceptions? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• If not, the addition of other perceptions can never give you that notion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Surely death is not death, and humanity is not extinct; but merely passed into other shapes, unsubjected to our perceptions. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• That is what gives understanding, and justifies the observation that the intuitions of scientific discovery and the artist's perceptions are closely related. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Oh, on certain sides Louisa bristles with perceptions. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• These philosophers are the curious reasoners concerning the material or immaterial substances, in which they suppose our perceptions to inhere. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• There is no contradiction, therefore, in extending the same doctrine to all the perceptions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The imagination tells us, that our resembling perceptions have a continued and uninterrupted existence, and are not annihilated by their absence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Of that you cannot be sure; and even if such be the case, is it the fault of your character, or of another's perceptions? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The supposition of the continued existence of sensible objects or perceptions involves no contradiction. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But as these perceptions are each of them simple and indivisible, they can never give us the idea of extension. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• When, in such matters, are a woman's perceptions at fault? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Gerty Farish, seated next to Selden, was lost in that indiscriminate and uncritical enjoyment so irritating to Miss Bart's finer perceptions. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In running over my other perceptions, I find still the same resemblance and representation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• For my part, I have a notion of neither, when conceived distinct from particular perceptions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I have not received in this particular instance both these perceptions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The constancy of our perceptions has the most considerable effect, and yet is attended with the greatest difficulties. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Now this is evidently the case with all our perceptions and objects, except those of the sight and feeling. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The smooth passage of the imagination along the ideas of the resembling perceptions makes us ascribe to them a perfect identity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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