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sense perception

noun

  1. perception by the senses rather than by the intellect.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sense perception1

First recorded in 1865–70

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Example Sentences

In fact the process of intellection has to pass several stages from sense perception through imagination.

Hence a man must guide properly the two powers of sense perception and desire, which are instruments of the rational power.

Beginning with sense perception a man must train all his five senses to attend only to what is good and to turn away from evil.

Here belong all cases of correct or partly correct inference and of false inference from false sense-perception.

The second type of fallacy—mistakes in observation—will be discussed later under sense perception and similar matters.

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