Cube, sphere, table are words he has known applied to things perceivable by touch, but to things perfectly intangible he never knew them applied.
In the first act of vision no idea entering by the eye would have a perceivable connexion with the ideas to which the names EARTH, MAN, HEAD, FOOT, etc.
But then, whatever judgments he makes concerning the situation of objects are confined to those only that are perceivable by touch.
Whence it clearly follows that motion perceivable by sight is of a sort distinct from motion perceivable by touch.
FIRST, in respect of the extent or number of visible points that are at once perceivable by it, which is narrow and limited to a certain degree.
The prime perceivable difference between our brains and those of the Apes and lower animals is the larger number of enfoldments, or convolutions, that are developed by the Human.
It appears to dislike rain with extreme aversion, and is discomfited and driven back by only a few and scarcely perceivable drops.
The outline will be clearly perceivable through the threads, and the next process is to take pen and Indian ink and make a dot upon each warp-thread in sequence round the outline of the pattern.
And thus the vicissitude of your senators is not perceivable in the steadiness and perpetuity of your Senate; which, like that of Venice, being always changing, is forever the same.
I accepted the result as a satisfactory determination of the just perceivable difference for the 20 hefner standard and proceeded to experiment with another standard value.
The reader will bear in mind as he examines Table 14 that 25 per cent of wrong choices indicates the point of just perceivable difference in brightness.
The fact that the lights didn't make any perceivable sound seemed as if it might be a clue.
If a perfectly streamlined shell could be used it would not have any perceivable whine.
This question has not escaped more recent British psychologists, including Stewart, Brown, Mill, and Bain, who seem to hold that unextended colour is perceivable and imaginable.
First, in respect of the extent or number of visible points that are at once perceivable by it, which is narrow and limited to a certain degree.
Motion, figure, and extension perceivable by sight are different from those ideas perceived by touch wch goe by the same name.
A distant object therefore cannot act on the eye; nor consequently make itself or its properties perceivable to the soul.
Supposing you were annihilated, cannot you conceive it possible that things perceivable by sense may still exist(855)?
So that the question is not now concerning the same numerical ideas, but whether there be any one and the same sort or species of ideas equally perceivable to both senses?
Sensible things are all immediately perceivable; and those things which are immediately perceivable are ideas; and these exist only in the mind.
Particular circles may be squar'd, for the circumference being given a diameter may be found betwixt wch & the true there is not any perceivable difference.
In the other Parts of the Body, this Elevation or Rising is scarcely perceivable by any Circumstance, but the Roughness of the Skin.
It is indeed a real Disorder itself, and which, when in a violent Degree, makes a very perceivable Assault upon our whole Machine.
It happens sometimes too, and even without any of these perceivable Discharges, that insensible Perspiration expels the Relics of the poisonous Cause of this Disease, and the Patient recovers his Health.
Besides that great Paroxysm or Increase, which is perceivable in all the Subjects of this Fever, some have also other less intervening ones.
But though we were not apprised of this, I believe any one will find, if he opens his eyes and makes an effort to see in a dark place, that a very perceivable pain ensues.
Again, I ask whether those supposed originals or external things, of which our ideas are the pictures or representations, be themselves perceivable or no?
The Megaric doctrine is the same as that of Protagoras, implying that there exists no perceivable Object, and no Subject capable of perceiving, except at the moment when perception actually takes place.
Altogether the corporate unity of townships is well perceivable behind the feudal covering of the manor.
Another feature of transition is perceivable in the history of the class of servants or ministers who collect and supervise the dues and services of the peasants.
Its action is perceivable in the treatment of the origin of the servile status.
It, however, was soon perceivable that the advantage of water privileges, stone, and access to both, was greatly in favor of Rochester.
It was also perceivable that Lewis and Paul both, were getting weary of the solicitations of the board and complaints of the settlers, and were anxious to be rid of them, and enjoy their ill gotten gains in their own way.
In Hamilton there was none of that wretchedness and squalid poverty, nor any of that drunken rowdyism so common in Eastern cities, perceivable among the colored people.
The perceivable or cogitable has no meaning except in relation to some Capax Percipiendi or Capax Cogitandi.
They have sufficient force of genius to free them from the vulgar error, that there is a natural and perceivable connexion betwixt the several sensible qualities and.
They are the coherence and constancy of our perceptions, which produce the opinion of their continued existence; though these qualities of perceptions have no perceivable connexion with such an existence.
Every idea of a quality in an object passes through an impression; and therefore every perceivable relation, whether of connexion or repugnance, must be common both to objects and impressions.
The only workman of whom we know anything at all is the one that runs ourselves and even this is not perceivable by any of our gross palpable senses.
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