All 6 Uses of
perception
in
The Fountainhead
- She stood very still, because her first perception was not of sight, but of touch: the consciousness, not of a visual presence, but of a slap in the face.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- There was no expression on her face, not even an effort to avoid expression; it was strange to see a human face presenting a bone structure and an arrangement of muscles, but no meaning, a face as a simple anatomical feature, like a shoulder or an arm, not a mirror of sensate perception any longer.†
Chpt 2.6
- He thought that a man who loses his eyes still retains the concept of sight; but he had heard of a ghastlier blindness—if the brain centers controlling vision are destroyed, one loses even the memory of visual perception.†
Chpt 3.1
- She knew that his thoughts, in this moment, were clear and immediate like visual perception, that the act of thinking was an act of seeing a procession of years behind him.†
Chpt 3.2
- The sound perception of an ant does not include thunder.†
Chpt 3.6
- He knew that he must have seen the woman's face, that the instinct of self-preservation had jerked his glance away from it and let his conscious perception begin with the shoes.†
Chpt 4.10
Definitions:
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(1)
(perception as in: perception of injustice) a belief or opinion formed by viewing things a certain way
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(2)
(perception as in: perception of external stimuli) something that someone senses; or the act of sensing