The objects of sense exist only when they are perceived; the trees therefore are in the garden, or the chairs in the parlour, no longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them.
But if it is said that these things are certain; then it also appears to me to be certain that the colours which I perceive do exist (some of them) where I perceive them.
Now, for an idea to exist in an unperceiving thing is a manifest contradiction; for to have an idea is all one as to perceive: that therefore wherein colour, figure, and the like qualities exist must perceive them.
The objects of sense exist only when they are perceived: the trees therefore are in the garden, or the chairs in the parlour, no longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them.
Besides, allowing there are colours on external objects, yet, how is it possible for us to perceive them?
If he perceive them at New York and Philadelphia, - we imagine him boldly as liberated from Boston, - how could he fail to perceive them at La Rochelle?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perceive them" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
