He denies, while he has the sensation of colour, that there exists colour out of himself, unless in thinking and percipient beings constituted in a manner similar to that in which he is constituted.
The spear-head is the percipient organ, the shaft or stalk is the motor region, and from head to shaft an influence has clearly been transmitted.
It was natural to believe that the tipless roots failed to bend because their sense-organs--their percipient parts--had been removed.
Herr Parish next invents a cause for an hallucination, which, I myself think, ought not to have been reckoned, because the percipient had been sitting up with the sick man.
Percipient not much interested, nor at all anxious.
In case 1, percipient knew that his aunt in England (he being in Australia) was not very well.
The occasion of sound; the impulse or vibration which would occasion sound to a percipient if present with unimpaired; hence, the theory of vibrations in elastic media such cause sound; as, a treatise on sound.
Defn: Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being.
All the subjective theories fail, because the moral quality is objectively real to the percipient conscience.
It is worth remarking that in another experimental transfer of thought, where thepercipient was not warned, when Mr. Godfrey's apparition was seen by a lady friend, she heard a curious sound like birds in the ivy.
The reason why more audile phenomena are perceived at night is that thepercipient is tolerably still.
The appearance of a thing is altered by intervening smoke or mist, by blue spectacles or by alterations in the sense-organs or nerves of the percipient (which also must be reckoned as part of the intervening medium).
If what we have said on these subjects is valid, the existence of sense-data is logically independent of the existence of mind, and is causally dependent upon the body of the percipient rather than upon his mind.
We cannot define a perspective as all the data of one percipient at one time, because we wish to allow the possibility of perspectives which are not perceived by any one.
To the psychologist the "place from which" is the more interesting, and the "sensibile" accordingly appears to him subjective and where the percipient is.
It has already been observed that the percipient mind has very different attitudes with respect to various kinds of impression.
Here it is plain that, while experience and association are not wholly absent, but place certain wide limits on this process of castle-building, the spontaneous activity of the percipient mind is the great determining force.
Another important fact shewn by embryology is that the central nervous system, and percipient portions of the organs of special sense, especially of optic organs, are often formed from the same part of the primitive epidermis.
In one of these the percipient elements are formed from the central nervous system, in the other from the epidermis.
The presence of such percipient elements in various eyes is therefore no proof of genetic relationship between these eyes, but merely of similarity of function.
In many cases, however, the agent and percipient have been in the same room, and there has therefore still been some possible risk of unconscious whispering; but this risk has been successfully avoided.
Smith, silence was enjoined upon him, and he was placed behind the percipient or in another room; yet the percipient actually saw and described the projecting impression as if it were a real picture before his eyes.
Any possibility of the percipient being able to guess at the subject through chance, association, or ideas was rigorously excluded.
The visitation so impressed the percipient that he took the next train home and related to his parents what had occurred.
I will now concern myself with the power of an agent to project himself phantasmally--that is, to make his form and features manifest to some percipient at a distance as though he were actually present.
A weak state of health on the part of the percipient would seem to be conducive to hallucinatory visions.
Now, is it not a little singular that, although both Dr Hodgson and Mr Myers record this incident, the theory of telepathy between a living agent and a living percipient does not occur to them?
In these experiments the subject or percipient was always hypnotised, remaining so to a varying degree throughout the experiment.
In other cases of a similar nature the hallucination is visual, the percipient actually seeing the figure of the expected person.
The percipient was an officer in the king's wardrobe at Windsor, "of a good reputation for honesty and discretion," and aged about fifty.
Both agent andpercipient awake and normal--hallucination produced at a distance of four hundred miles.
The agent in the hypnotic condition; a definite hallucination strongly desired and decided upon beforehand was produced, the percipient being in a normal state.
Hallucination decided upon before going to sleep was produced--the percipient awake and in normal condition.
In addition to these voluntary or prearranged cases there is, however, another and much larger class of cases which occur spontaneously, unthought of, and unexpected by the percipient as well as by the agent.
It was the experience of a child--it is reported by the percipient herself.
In these experiments with objects, the percipient was blindfolded and the object moreover was kept out of range of vision.
In the following case the name of the agent is withheld from publication, though known to Mr. Myers who reports the case; the percipient is the Rev.
It differs from those already cited in the fact that it is unconnected with either sleep or hypnotism, but both agent and percipient were awake and in a perfectly normal condition.
It may also be made when the percipient is in a condition of reverie, between sleeping and waking, and even when wide awake and in a perfectly normal condition.
This definite impression may be made upon the senses of the percipient in dreams--especially those of a veridical character, where there is a definite reality corresponding in time and circumstances.
The former percipient sees a non-real apparition, a visualized image out of his own experience; the latter claims to see a real being.
He obtained permission to make a series of test experiments, the two sisters acting as agent andpercipient alternately.
Neither knew what the other was looking at--nor did the percipientknow that anything unusual was being tried.
The object being rather large, was then moved further back, so that it might be more easily grasped by the agents as a whole, but percipient persisted that it was like a duck.
It would seem as though the idea of a clock was thought-transferred at once; but that the working out of the idea in the mind was modified by what the percipient happened to see before her.
In the preceding sections, two relations should be carefully distinguished--that of the material world to percipient mind, in which it becomes real; and that between changes in the world and spiritual agency.
That "Matter" is co-eternal with God would mean that God is eternally making things real in thepercipient experience of persons.
The changing appearances of which we are percipient in sense, united objectively in their cosmical order, are what is truly meant by the realities of sense.
And which, because realised in living perception, are called ideas--to remind us that reality is attained in and through percipient mind.
Here the question of externality, signifying independence of all percipient life, is again mixed up with that of the invisibility of distance outwards in the line of sight.
They differ as regards the dependence of the sensible object upon percipient spirit for its reality.
But whilst unthinking things depend on being perceived, do not our spirits depend on ideas of some sort for their percipient life?
The independent eternity of Matter must be distinguished from an unbeginning and endless creation of sensible ideas or phenomena, in percipient spirits, according to divine natural law and order, with implied immanence of God.
Is it true that the phenomena of which we are percipient in sense are ultimately independent of all percipient and conscious life, and are even the ultimate basis of all that is real?
Unless our God-given experience is deceiving, Solipsism is not a necessary result of the fact that no one but myself can be percipient of my sensuous experience.
Is all or any of its reality independent of percipient experience?
This is the case in which the object is a body similar in structure and action to the percipient himself, who assigns to that body a passion he has caught by contagion from it and by imitation of its actual attitude.
An element in the percipient repeats the total movement and tendency of the person perceived.
Whenever, then, feeling is attributed to an animal similar to the percipient and similarly employed the attribution is mutual and correct.
Paul's evidence is that of an allegedpercipient witness.
In this latest and last-mentioned period are comprised all the several facts, or supposed facts, in relation to which any grounds appear for the supposition that the historian was, in his own person, a percipient witness.
In nearly every instance reported to the Society for Psychical Research the percipient of the phantasm is alone and in a more or less passive, quiescent frame of mind.
The only points of difference are that there is a greater amount of detail in clairvoyant visions, and that the percipient often experiences a sensation of being actually present at the scene beheld.
There are some in which the telepathic action of mind upon mind is clearly manifested, and in which the crystal seems to serve as a mechanical aid, enabling the percipient to become aware of the telepathic message.
We have just the same proof of the existence of the external object as of the thinking and percipient subject.
This could only be done by some superior intelligence who could survey apart the object and the percipient subject.
Every conception of self necessarily implies a conception of not self; every perception of what is different from me, implies a recognition of the percipient subject in contradistinction from the object perceived.
He that made man a sentient, percipient, self-conscious personality, shall not He be percipient and self-conscious?
Further proof is afforded by experiments such as those by which Alfred Binet showed that a visual hallucination may behave for its percipient in many respects like a real object, e.
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