1506 | Parmenides treats perception and intellectual activity as the same [Theophrastus on Parmenides] |
20802 | Snow is not white, and doesn't even appear white, because it is made of black water [Anaxagoras, by Cicero] |
2045 | Perception is infallible, suggesting that it is knowledge [Plato] |
2067 | Our senses could have been separate, but they converge on one mind [Plato] |
17711 | Our minds take on the form of what is being perceived [Aristotle, by Mares] |
1724 | Perception necessitates pleasure and pain, which necessitates appetite [Aristotle] |
1725 | Why can't we sense the senses? And why do senses need stimuli? [Aristotle] |
1730 | Why do we have many senses, and not just one? [Aristotle] |
1732 | Sense organs aren't the end of sensation, or they would know what does the sensing [Aristotle] |
16723 | Perception of sensible objects is virtually never wrong [Aristotle] |
12379 | You cannot understand anything through perception [Aristotle] |
2664 | If we have complete healthy senses, what more could the gods give us? [Cicero] |
22167 | Our images of bodies are not produced by the bodies, but by our own minds [Augustine, by Aquinas] |
16724 | The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon] |
19353 | 'Perception' is basic internal representation, and 'apperception' is reflective knowledge of perception [Leibniz] |
19419 | Not all of perception is accompanied by consciousness [Leibniz] |
7631 | Sensation is not committed to any external object, but perception is [Reid] |
15609 | The sensible is distinguished from thought by being about singular things [Hegel] |
21773 | Experience is immediacy, unity, forces, self-awareness, reason, culture, absolute being [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
20119 | We became increasingly conscious of our sense impressions in order to communicate them [Nietzsche] |
4529 | All sense perceptions are permeated with value judgements (useful or harmful) [Nietzsche] |
2780 | Perception is either direct realism, indirect realism, or phenomenalism [Dancy,J] |
12581 | Perceptual concepts causally influence the content of our experiences [Peacocke] |
4264 | Perception (which involves an assessment) is a higher state than sensation [Scruton] |
6502 | Can we reduce perception to acquisition of information, which is reduced to causation or disposition? [Robinson,H] |
6513 | Would someone who recovered their sight recognise felt shapes just by looking? [Robinson,H] |
2397 | 'Perception' means either an action or a mental state [Chalmers] |
6366 | Perception causes beliefs in us, without inference or justification [Pollock/Cruz] |
6860 | How can one discriminate yellow from red, but not the colours in between? [Williamson] |
6857 | An error theory of perception says our experience is not as it seems to be [Martin,M] |
7632 | Perception is sensation-then-concept, or direct-concepts, or sensation-saturated-in-concepts [Maund] |
14585 | We have more than five senses; balance and proprioception, for example [Mumford/Anjum] |
20924 | In phenomenology, all perception is 'seeing as' [Zimmermann,J] |
14694 | "My dog's got synaesthesia." How does he smell? ..... [Sommers,W] |