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Example sentences for "perceptive"

Lexicographically close words:
perceptible; perceptibly; perception; perceptional; perceptions; perceptives; percepts; perceptual; percession; perceyue
  1. The animals all have in varying degrees perceptive intelligence.

  2. But it does at times play a part--perceptive intelligence, but not rational intelligence.

  3. But she kept fast hold of her perceptive faculties.

  4. He was a fair perceptive who might have been quite proficient if he had taken the full psi course at some university.

  5. Maybe a perceptive with a temporal sense who could retrace that letter back to the point of origin, teamed up with a telepath strong enough to drill a hole through the dead area that surrounds New Washington.

  6. We had hit it this time; here was a woman perceptive and a Mekstrom residing in a way station.

  7. Now and then I caught a perceptive impression the crescent of cars that were corralling us along U.

  8. Look, Farrow, try and make a bit of sense to a poor perceptive who can't read a mind.

  9. With the best of social amenities, he could hardly have spent a full waking day in the company of either a telepath or a perceptive without giving away the fact that he was Mekstrom.

  10. I could not avoid letting my perceptive sense rest on the sign as I drove past.

  11. The old boys seemed to have the quaint notion that a telepath should be able at once to know everything that goes on everywhere, and a perceptive should be aware of everything material about him.

  12. I froze, half aching for some perceptive range so that I could dig any sign of danger, and half remembering that if it weren't for the dead area, I'd not be this far.

  13. But I knew that Thorndyke was fairly well acquainted with the depth of my perceptive sense, and he would not have concealed anything too deep for me.

  14. Anything that involves taking a perceptive dig at the U.

  15. I rose at once and strode down the hall and snapped the door open just as Phelps' completely unexpecting mind grasped the perceptive fact that someone was coming down his hallway wearing a great big forty five automatic.

  16. The idea was to hit Fort Worth and lose them in the city where fun, games, and telepath-perceptive hare-and-hounds would be viewed dimly by the peaceloving citizens.

  17. For my perceptive digging I came up with nothing but those things that any hospital held.

  18. She was certainly smart enough to lead one half-trained perceptive around by a ring in my nose.

  19. Our statements must be guarded: we cannot say that the perceptive attitudes are never disturbed; we know that personality may be greatly modified; we know that scene may follow scene in the most bizarre way.

  20. It is highly complex, since its stimulus is not a single object, a perceptive stimulus, but a total situation or predicament, which may arouse all sorts of ideas.

  21. The great perceptive attitudes remain for the most part unchanged.

  22. Here the meaning of a particular table is carried by three modes of perceptive experience.

  23. Pullman had a perceptive mind--so have all truly successful men.

  24. If a man determines to succeed and has a perceptive mind to see opportunities, if he relies on no one but himself, and follows this up by hard, persistent work, he will succeed.

  25. Sidenote: Primary Mental Operations] In this book we shall give you a clear idea of the Sense-Perceptive Process and show you some of the ways in which an understanding of this process will be useful to you in everyday affairs.

  26. You should know something of the weaknesses and deficiencies of the sense-perceptive organs, because all your efforts at influencing other men are directed at their organs of sense.

  27. Sidenote: Practical Aspects of Perception Process] The other aspect of the Sense-Perceptive Process has to do with the mental interpretation of environment.

  28. The Sense-Perceptive Process is the process by which knowledge is acquired through the senses.

  29. You have concluded your study of the first of the two fundamental processes of the mind, the Sense-Perceptive Process, and have learned to distinguish between seeing or hearing or feeling on the one hand and perceiving on the other.

  30. Consequently, the Sense-Perceptive Process furnishes the raw material, sense-perceptions or experience, for the machinery of the Judicial Process to work with.

  31. These two fundamental processes are the Sense-Perceptive Process and the Judicial Process.

  32. The rational and perceptive function we term our intelligence emerges from darkness through a slowly lifting dawn.

  33. That is to say, its present task is to measure and correct in us the limits, gaps, and weaknesses of the perceptive faculty.

  34. Thus there is no question here of restricting in any degree the part played by thought, but only of distinguishing between the perceptive and theoretic functions of mind.

  35. Doubtless we might define philosophy by this same ideal, as an effort to expand our perceptive power until we render it capable of grasping all the wealth and all the depth of reality at a single glance.

  36. Nattie was rather embarrassed at this instance of the young gentleman's perceptive faculties, and not exactly able to refute the charge, was somewhat at loss how to reply.

  37. He has quick perceptive powers, but little power of reasoning.

  38. Little children are very fond of it, and it is most interesting and surprising to note the development of perceptive power through the playing of the game.

  39. This class of games makes maximal demands upon perceptive powers and ability to react quickly and accurately upon rapidly shifting conditions, requiring quick reasoning and judgment.

  40. It is clear that no perceptive and well-informed mind can countenance such events.

  41. The intellect, the wisdom of the individual members of this excellent nation dazzled the minds of other peoples, the brilliance and perceptive genius that characterized all this noble race aroused the envy of the whole world.

  42. Telegraphies of slight perceptive nods and raised eyebrows, in touch with shoulder shrugs not insisted on, expressed mutual understanding between the two young ladies.

  43. He maintained a penitential attitude under the depressing shadow of the absence of his better half, which certainly was made the most of by both; somewhat artificially, a perceptive visitor might have said, if one had been there to see.

  44. Their memory is also more perfect, as might be expected, from the exquisite sensibility of their perceptive organs.

  45. His mind was both perceptive and vigorous.

  46. It is only for their will that they seem to have any perceptive faculties at all; and it is, in fact, only a moral and not a theoretical tendency, only a moral and not an intellectual value, that their life possesses.

  47. Secondly, interest works by exciting the will; whereas beauty exists only for the pure perceptive intelligence, which has no will.

  48. Shall we say that the Norman talent for affairs saves us here, or the Celtic perceptive instinct?

  49. As any perceptive person realizes, there is often conflict between the church as the fellowship of the Holy Spirit and the church as institution.

  50. This kind of comment, which is made by surprisingly intelligent and otherwise perceptive people, and all too often by educators, demonstrates how little they know about the processes of learning.

  51. If the unknowable reality projects into our perceptive faculty a "sensuous manifold" capable of fitting into it exactly, is it not, by that very fact, in part known?

  52. The matter is what is given by the perceptive faculties taken in the elementary state.

  53. Then in Natural History and Botany I think that we have hitherto not only neglected the perceptive side, but also what may be called the intuitive and emotional aspects.

  54. The perceptive faculties bring us into relationship with the external world, and through them we learn about the color, size, form, weight, etc.

  55. As the conscience and sentiments although not infallible, are our only guides in their sphere; so our perceptive faculties are good and safe, but not perfect, guides.

  56. These things should not make us skeptical about our perceptive powers, but rather cautiously critical.

  57. But several other philosophers agreed with Plato in considering self-motion, together with motive causality and faculties perceptive and cognitive, to be essential characteristics of soul.

  58. Having stated this, he proceeds to affirm that the results of these reasonings coincide with the common opinions of mankind, that is, with Common Sense; and that they are not contradicted by any known observations of perceptive experience.

  59. What is obvious is that "means of recognition" and "indication that the pairing season has arrived" are dependent on the perceptive powers of the female who recognises and for whom the indication has meaning.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perceptive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acute; apprehensive; astute; aware; clear; clever; cogent; cognizant; conscious; conversant; dainty; delicate; diplomatic; discerning; discriminating; farseeing; farsighted; foreseeing; foresighted; impressionable; impressive; incisive; intelligent; judicial; judicious; keen; knowing; knowledgeable; luminous; mindful; nice; observant; omniscient; penetrating; perceptive; percipient; perspicacious; perspicuous; piercing; politic; prehensile; provident; quick; ready; receptive; sagacious; sage; sensible; sensitive; sentient; sharp; shrewd; smart; sound; susceptible; tactful; trenchant; understanding; wise