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In short, we can only have inexact conceptions of things we perceive with our senses.
Chpt 9 *

perceive = become aware of
He perceived with his senses that things changed.†
Chpt 4
We could perhaps saythat Heraclitus had more faith in what he could perceive than Parmenides did.†
Chpt 4
Empedocles also raised the question of what happens when we perceive something.†
Chpt 4
So the "earth" in my eye perceives what is of the earth in my surroundings, the "air" perceives what is of the air, the "fire" perceives what is of fire, and the "water" what is of water.†
Chpt 4
So the "earth" in my eye perceives what is of the earth in my surroundings, the "air" perceives what is of the air, the "fire" perceives what is of fire, and the "water" what is of water.†
Chpt 4
So the "earth" in my eye perceives what is of the earth in my surroundings, the "air" perceives what is of the air, the "fire" perceives what is of fire, and the "water" what is of water.†
Chpt 4
But you cannot have true knowledge of anything you can perceive with your eyes.†
Chpt 9
This world of ideas cannot be perceived by the senses, but the ideas (or forms) are eternal and immutable.†
Chpt 9
It was equally apparent to Aristotle that the highest degree of reality is that which we perceive with our senses.†
Chpt 11
All "living creatures" (animals and humans) have in addition the ability to perceive the world around them and to move about.†
Chpt 11
From the Areopagos—and beneath the proud temples of the Acropolis— he makes the following speech: "Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.†
Chpt 14
Christianity is a divine mystery that we can only perceive through faith.†
Chpt 15
Descartes maintains that we cannot accept anything as being true unless we can clearly and distinctly perceive it.†
Chpt 18
But notice the intuitive certainty with which he suddenly perceives himself as a thinking being.†
Chpt 18
He perceived not only that he was a thinking /, he realized at the same time that this thinking / was more real than the material world which we perceive with our senses.†
Chpt 18
He perceived not only that he was a thinking /, he realized at the same time that this thinking / was more real than the material world which we perceive with our senses.†
Chpt 18
Descartes now asked himself if there was anything more he could perceive with the same intuitive certainty.†
Chpt 18
But outer reality also has certain characteristics that we can perceive with our reason.†
Chpt 18
Descartes claims 'God's guarantee' that whatever we perceive with our reason also corresponds to reality.†
Chpt 18
Can you perceive all of nature at one time—the whole universe, in fact— at a single glance?†
Chpt 19
Before we perceive anything, the mind is a 'tabula rasa'—or an empty slate.†
Chpt 20
Locke emphasized that the only things we can perceive are simple sensations.†
Chpt 20
Now he asked whether the world really is the way we perceive it.†
Chpt 20
No, why don't you use Hume's method and analyze what you perceive as your 'ego.'†
Chpt 21
He only accepted what he had perceived through his senses.†
Chpt 21
The child perceives the world as it is, without putting more into things than he experiences.†
Chpt 21
He believed we cannot know any more of the world than we can perceive through the senses?†
Chpt 22
Berkeley claimed that worldly things are indeed as we perceive them, but they are not 'things.'†
Chpt 22
We can only say we perceive it as being so.†
Chpt 22
He said the only things that exist are those we perceive.†
Chpt 22
But we do not perceive 'material' or 'matter.'†
Chpt 22
We do not perceive things as tangible objects.†
Chpt 22
To assume that what we perceive has its own underlying 'substance' is jumping to conclusions.†
Chpt 22
He said that 'we can moreover claim that the existence of God is far more clearly perceived than the existence of man.†
Chpt 22
For we cannot perceive the matter itself that our reality is made of, that much we have learned.†
Chpt 22
Two main possibilities were drawn up: either the world is exactly as we perceive it, or it is the way it appears to our reason.†
Chpt 24
But—and here Kant stretches his hand out to the rationalists—in our reason there are also decisive factors that determine how we perceive the world around us.†
Chpt 24
That's because the glasses limit the way you perceive reality.†
Chpt 24
Whatever we see will first and foremost be perceived as phenomena in time and space.†
Chpt 24
In other words, we can know before we experience things that we will perceive them as phenomena in time and space.†
Chpt 24
So he thought that perceiving things in time and space was innate?†
Chpt 24
The law of causality is eternal and absolute simply because human reason perceives everything that happens as a matter of cause and effect.†
Chpt 24 *
On the other hand, prior to any particular experience we can say something about how things will be perceived by the human mind.†
Chpt 24
But you can know that what you see and experience will be perceived as happening in time and space.†
Chpt 24
Hume showed that we can neither perceive nor prove natural laws.†
Chpt 24
One is the external conditions that we cannot know of before we have perceived them through the senses.†
Chpt 24
Just as we are all intelligent beings, for example, perceiving everything as having a causal relation, we all have access to the same universal moral law.†
Chpt 24
We do not decide what we perceive—perception comes to us through necessity and influences us whether we like it or not.†
Chpt 24
He can let us 'perceive' all kinds of things; nothing would surprise me.†
Chpt 24

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(1) (perceive as in: perceive the system as unfair)
to view in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
(2) (perceive as in: though blind, can perceive light)
to become aware of -- especially by using the senses (to see, hear, smell, feel, or taste)
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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