Example Sentences

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She was her own best perceiver, so I have to trust her on that.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2020

Primary qualities of an object, such as solidity and occupancy of space, exist independently of a perceiver.

From Scientific American • Aug. 27, 2019

She enjoyed my appreciation of her mind, which was sincere; she was a delicate and nuanced perceiver.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 8, 2019

“Numerous studies have demonstrated that a person’s physical attractiveness level is discerned and cognitively processed within a fraction of a fraction of an instant, even when the perceiver cannot report exactly what has been perceived.”

From Time • Jul. 19, 2013

Aristotle was thus interpreted by philosophers as grounding knowledge in sensation, and sensation was reinterpreted as knowledge of a reality external to the perceiver.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton