Immediate perception

  • 1PERCEPTION — Malgré l’intérêt incessant qu’a suscité l’étude de la perception tout au long de l’histoire de la philosophie occidentale et malgré l’énorme contribution, sur ce sujet, de la psychologie depuis l’époque où celle ci a tenté de se définir comme… …

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  • 2perception — perceptional, adj. /peuhr sep sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or faculty of apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding. 2. immediate or intuitive recognition or appreciation, as of moral, psychological, or aesthetic… …

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  • 3Perception — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Perception (homonymie). La perception est une faculté bio physique ou le phénomène physio psychologique et culturel qui relie l action du vivant aux mondes et à l environnement par l intermédiaire des sens et des …

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  • 4perception — A fundamental philosophical topic both for its central place in any theory of knowledge, and its central place in any theory of consciousness. Philosophy in this area is constrained by a number of properties that we believe to hold of perception …

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  • 5perception — per•cep•tion [[t]pərˈsɛp ʃən[/t]] n. 1) the act or faculty of apprehending by means of the senses or the mind; cognition; awareness 2) psl cog a single unified awareness derived from sensory processes while a stimulus is present 3) immediate or… …

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  • 6perception — /pəˈsɛpʃən / (say puh sepshuhn) noun 1. the action or faculty of perceiving; cognition; a taking cognisance, as of a sensible object. 2. an immediate or intuitive recognition, as of a moral or aesthetic quality. 3. the result or product of… …

  • 7time perception — Introduction       experience or awareness of the passage of time.       The human experience of change is complex. One primary element clearly is that of a succession of events, but distinguishable events are separated by more or less lengthy… …

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  • 8Motor theory of speech perception — When we hear spoken words we sense that they are made of auditory sounds. The motor theory of speech perception argues that behind the sounds we hear are the intended movements of the vocal tract that pronounces them. The motor theory of speech… …

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  • 9Heaven — • In the Holy Bible the term heaven denotes, in the first place, the blue firmament, or the region of the clouds that pass along the sky. Gen., i, 20, speaks of the birds under the firmament of heaven . In other passages it denotes the region of… …

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  • 10Dualism — • Denotes the religious or theological system which would explain the universe as the outcome of two eternally opposed and coexisting principles Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Dualism     Dualism …

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