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Definition of Perceives
1. perceive [v] - See also: perceive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perceives
Literary usage of Perceives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theaetetus of Plato by Plato, Samuel Waters Dyde (1899)
"In the first place if a person knows two things, and has the stamp of them in
his soul, but perceives neither, he cannot mistake one for the other. ..."
2. Improvement of the Understanding, Ethics, and Correspondence of Benedict de by Benedictus de Spinoza (1901)
"The human mind perceives not only the modifications of the body, ... they will
be in the human mind itself, which therefore perceives not only ..."
3. Ethic: Demonstrated in Geometrical Order, and Divided Into Five Parts, which by Benedictus de Spinoza, William Hale White, Amelia Hutchison Stirling (1894)
"2), the human mind perceives these affections ... The human mind, therefore,
perceives the human body, &c.—QED PROP. XX.—There exists in God the idea, ..."
4. Improvement of the Understanding: Ethics and Correspondence of Benedict de by Benedictus de Spinoza (1901)
"The human mind perceives not only the modifications of the body, ... they will
be in the human mind itself, which therefore perceives not only ..."
5. The Spanish Story of the Armada, and Other Essays by James Anthony Froude (1899)
"... without effort and without consciousness ; the heart loves and does not know
that it loves ; the mind perceives yet does not know that it perceives. ..."
6. Alhacen's Theory of Visual Perception: A Critical Edition, with English by Alhazen, A. Mark Smith (2001)
"Thus, when sight perceives a visible object in two different places or ...
Thus, sight only perceives motion over time. [3.185] We shall also point out that ..."
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