1821 | Sensations cannot be judged, because similar sensations have equal value, and different ones have nothing in common [Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius] |
20792 | Stoic perception is a presentation to which one voluntarily assents [Stoic school, by Stobaeus] |
1883 | How can the intellect know if sensation is reliable if it doesn't directly see external objects? [Sext.Empiricus] |
2295 | Why does pain make us sad? [Descartes] |
4831 | If the body is affected by an external object, the mind can't help believing that the object exists [Spinoza] |
23639 | It is unclear whether a toothache is in the mind or in the tooth, but the word has a single meaning [Reid] |
2774 | Kant says the cognitive and sensory elements in experience can't be separated [Kant, by Dancy,J] |
22033 | Hegel tried to avoid Kant's dualism of neutral intuitions and imposed concepts [Hegel, by Pinkard] |
4163 | All perception is intellectual [Schopenhauer] |
2878 | We see an approximation of a tree, not the full detail [Nietzsche] |
7156 | Sense perceptions contain values (useful, so pleasant) [Nietzsche] |
7181 | Pain shows the value of the damage, not what has been damaged [Nietzsche] |
7129 | Perception is unconscious, and we are only conscious of processed perceptions [Nietzsche] |
6098 | Perception goes straight to the fact, and not through the proposition [Russell] |
20749 | Perceived objects always appear in a context [Heidegger] |
18278 | Kant showed that our perceptions are partly constructed from our concepts [Reichenbach] |
20750 | The mind does not unite perceptions, because they flow into one another [Merleau-Ponty] |
22449 | When we say 'is red' we don't mean 'seems red to most people' [Foot] |
3482 | Perception is a function of expectation [Searle] |
4049 | The way in which colour experiences are evoked is physically odd and unpredictable [Goldman] |
19092 | There is no pure Given, but it is cultured, rather than entirely relative [McDowell, by Macbeth] |
2718 | Perception is first simple, then objectual (with concepts) and then propositional [Audi,R] |
4910 | Sense organs don't discriminate; they reduce various inputs to the same electrical pulses [Carter,R] |
4911 | The recognition sequence is: classify, name, locate, associate, feel [Carter,R, by PG] |
9124 | We are unable to perceive a nose (on the back of a mask) as concave [Sorensen] |
17979 | Research shows perceptual discrimination is sharper at category boundaries [Murphy] |