perceiver

NOUN
  1. a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
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How To Use perceiver In A Sentence

  • But is it possible to observe so that there is only observation, seeing, and nothing else - so that there is only perception without a perceiver?
  • The adventurous work of art could be equally meaningless if the "perceiver" can't recognize the broader practices made visible by tradition, even if the work does encompass them. John Dewey's *Art as Experience*
  • A different, but essentially parallel explanatory hypothesis is provided by a now familiar science fiction scenario: the perceiver is a disembodied brain floating in a vat of brain nutrients and receiving electrical impulses from a computer that again contains an ideally complete model or representation of a material world and generates the impulses accordingly, taking account of motor impulses received from the brain that reflect the person's intended movements. Epistemological Problems of Perception
  • The self, the I-function, acts as the "perceiver" for our perception. Serendip's Exchange
  • God, it was said, “sees” all of time in one eternal instant; yet seeing, like knowing, requires real relations in the perceiver; moreover, one cannot see as fully actualized that which is still only possibly to be actualized, that is to say, the partially indeterminate future. Process Theism
  • For the reader or the viewer "art as experience" involves what Dewey calls elsewhere in the book an "act of reconstruction" whereby the "perceiver" undertakes "an ordering of the elements of the whole that is in form, although not in details, the same as the process of organization the creator of the work consciously experienced. John Dewey's *Art as Experience*
  • You Are ... beyond the body-mind and personality, beyond all experience and the experiencer thereof, beyond the world and its perceiver, beyond existence and its absence, beyond all assertions and denials. Flower Heads and Grain
  • You will notice that everything is going on without your actual involvement, you just remain as the perceiver of all.
  • The second complication of Sellars 'theory of sensations arises from the further conclusion that it is this manifest image conception of sensory contents as states of perceivers which must ultimately be synoptically “fused” with the scientific image, and that the latter's commitment to the idea that those perceivers themselves are complex systems of micro-physical particles constitutes a barrier to doing so in any straightforward way. Wilfrid Sellars
  • Private space is built out of the various visual, tactual, and other experiences which a perceiver coordinates into a matrix with himself at the centre.
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