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per·ceive

(pər-sēv′)
v.
1. To become aware of directly through any of the senses, especially sight or hearing.
2. To achieve understanding of; apprehend.

per·ceiv′a·ble adj.
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Kant's version of subjective experience stated that self-consciousness, which he refers to as the empirical unity of apperception, also relied on the experiences and associations of the perceiver (Kant, 1781, pp.
Expectancy biases change the image of social reality in the perceiver's own mind, without changing the target's actual behavior.
The perceivers of the poems enact meanings, at the end of the day, whether the poets intend to convey meanings or not" (271).
(ii) The background moral theories of different perceivers often contradict each other and, when that is so, at most one of them can be true.
Thus, observing the private events of others, such as when the perceiver knows what the target is thinking, is made increasingly possible by a thorough observational history with respect to the target.
Brewer suggests that statements about how an object looks are relative to either the paradigms of the perceiver or those of the ascriber.
Interpersonal expectations also colour a perceiver's views of the target and guide the perceiver's behaviour toward the target (Snyder, 1984).
The machine serves Noon well; it opens a stimulating passage examining the correlation between the infected perceiver and the phenomenological object.
One's motives must be assessed, an epistemic community willing to apprentice the perceiver must be located, and a relationship of trust must be built before one can even begin to learn a set of hermeneutical resources that follow from a given resistant epistemological position.
The elements of intersubjectivity in visual and plastic arts are "artwork, artist, and perceiver," and these are essential for the multidirectional communication process to take place (Derrida, Positions 23).
The topics include Gins and Arakawa and the passage to materialism, architecture and poetic efficacy, Architectural Body as generative utopia, architectural bodies and fictional worlds, constructing the perceiver, and Architectural Body as a transgeneric manifesto.
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