Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who perceives, feels, or observes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who perceives (in any of the senses of the verb).
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- noun
Agent noun ofperceive ; one who perceives.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
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Examples
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The "conditions" that might prevent us from enjoying aesthetic experience are those that cut off either the artist or the perceiver from the "beauty" of creating and focus his/her attention instead on the purely utilitarian.
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A different, but essentially parallel explanatory hypothesis is provided by a now familiar science fiction scenario: the perceiver is a disembodied brain floating in a vat of brain nutrients and receiving electrical impulses from a computer that again contains an ideally complete model or representation of a material world and generates the impulses accordingly, taking account of motor impulses received from the brain that reflect the person's intended movements.
Epistemological Problems of Perception BonJour, Laurence 2007
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The idea that consciousness exists in some state that is independent of the situation of the perceiver is a myth.
On Women’s Studies 2005
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For the reader or the viewer "art as experience" involves what Dewey calls elsewhere in the book an "act of reconstruction" whereby the "perceiver" undertakes "an ordering of the elements of the whole that is in form, although not in details, the same as the process of organization the creator of the work consciously experienced."
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The adventurous work of art could be equally meaningless if the "perceiver" can't recognize the broader practices made visible by tradition, even if the work does encompass them.
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The adventurous work of art could be equally meaningless if the "perceiver" can't recognize the broader practices made visible by tradition, even if the work does encompass them.
June 2010 2010
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The adventurous work of art could be equally meaningless if the "perceiver" can't recognize the broader practices made visible by tradition, even if the work does encompass them.
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The adventurous work of art could be equally meaningless if the "perceiver" can't recognize the broader practices made visible by tradition, even if the work does encompass them.
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The self, the I-function, acts as the "perceiver" for our perception.
Serendip's Exchange emily 2010
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One can perceive corruption in the act of an officeholder only against a background of a "correct" pattern of behavior, a background which must exist in the beliefs of the perceiver.
The Cause of Corruption, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
damoiseau commented on the word perceiver
In personality typing, a Perceiver, P, tends to function best with open-ended projects, enjoys exploring possibilities more than making firm decisions. A perceiver might function well in chaos and is certainly prone to procrastination.
September 26, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word perceiver
One of the counselors at my high school could never remember this--she was a "J," and she would always talk about "judging and... not judging."
September 26, 2011