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Perception Quotes by Samuel Alexander
- The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.
- The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
- Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it…
- In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
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