Thus, to Cārvākas, the step which the mind takes from the knowledge of something to infer the knowledge of something else, could be accounted for by the its being based on a former perception or by its being in error.

Though Cārvākas accepted direct perception as the surest method to prove the truth of anything, they might also have accepted a limited usage of inference.

Holzkamp, who had written two books on theory of science and one on sensory perception before publishing the Grundlegung der Psychologie in 1983, thought this major work provided a solid paradigm for psychological research, as he viewed psychology as a pre-paradigmatic scientific discipline ( T. S.

While mostly a rational man of sound reason, his reading of books of chivalry in excess has had a profound effect on him, leading to the distortion of his perception and the wavering of his mental faculties.

Ronald and his mother were never reconciled from his perception that she had deserted his father, but he visited in later life and became friendly with Beatty.

This was partly due to the perception that the internal debate over the war in Afghanistan had been more honest and open than in other parties, and one of the MPs who had voted against the Afghanistan deployment, Hans-Christian Ströbele, was directly elected to the Bundestag as a district representative for the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg-Prenzlauer Berg East constituency in Berlin, becoming the first Green to ever gain a first-past-the-post seat in Germany.

The real population transfer figures are somewhat contested by historians, though the general perception is that significant portion of local population had remained, while the exile was largely of the nobility class.

He stated that the Taliban and Al Qaeda had introduced " a very wrong perception of Islam " and that without the support of Pakistan the Taliban would not be able to sustain their military campaign for up to a year.

Before the electronic age, the RGB color model already had a solid theory behind it, based in human perception of colors.

On the other hand, in reference to perception of safety, the research concluded that one ’ s perception of safety had no influence on public opinion of racial profiling.

In the cultural sphere, Scott's Waverley novels played a significant part in the movement ( begun with James Macpherson's Ossian cycle ) in rehabilitating the public perception of the culture of the Scottish Highlands and its culture, which had been formally suppressed as barbaric – and viewed in the southern mind as a breeding ground of hill bandits, religious fanaticsim, and Jacobite rebellions.

He stated that the Taliban and Al Qaeda had introduced " a very wrong perception of Islam " and that without the support of Pakistan and Bin Laden the Taliban would not be able to sustain their military campaign for up to a year.

Another Swedish author who had great influence on the perception of the Vikings was Esaias Tegnér, member of the Geatish Society, who wrote a modern version of Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna, which became widely popular in the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom and Germany.

Gretzky had such an uncanny ability to judge the position of the other players on the ice that many suspected he enjoyed some kind of extrasensory perception.

The XFree86 project suffered from a perception of a far too cathedral-like development model ; developers could not get CVS commit access and vendors had to maintain extensive patch sets.

Empiricists such as David Hume had argued that all realities in the outside world are products of human sense perception.

Historic Chinatowns-such as that in San Francisco, California-have had a significant influence on the perception of Chinatowns in western countries, although it and other North American Chinatowns fall outside the tradition of Chinese settlement in having significant numbers of Chinese women.

In fact, a shortage of colour perception in some people had not even been formally described or officially noticed until Dalton wrote about his own.

The Tiananmen protests were partially protests against the affluence of the children of high-ranking Communist Party officials, and the perception that second-generation officials had received their fortunes through exploiting their parents ' influence.

Marie Antoinette earned the nickname of " Madame Déficit " in the summer of 1787 as a result of the public perception that she had singlehandedly ruined the finances of the nation.

Dating back to the de Saulle trial in New York, during which his masculinity had been questioned in print, Valentino had been very sensitive with his public perception.

At the end of his life, he was embittered by the growing perception that his establishment of a Congo Free State was mitigated by its unscrupulous government ; in his defense for having imposed Christian civilization, it was maintained that Stanley had " only been responsible for the death of six or seven hundred negroes .... and all these negroes fell as the result of attacking Stanley.

The Morris worm has sometimes been referred to as the " Great Worm ", because of the devastating effect it had on the Internet at that time, both in overall system downtime and in psychological impact on the perception of security and reliability of the Internet.

However, by 1939, the perception of discrimination against African Americans had changed to the point that the NAACP magazine Opportunity hailed the WPA, saying:

They believe that light is a living thing, possessing knowledge, might, perception and understanding ; and from it movement and life take their source ; but that darkness is dead, ignorant, feeble, rigid and soulless, without activity and discrimination ; and they hold that the evil within them is the outcome of their nature and is done without their co-operation.

The criticism centred around the perception of a conflict of interest relating to her position as " one of the leading people on copyright policy, possibly even the future Canadian heritage minister " and her stance in favour of stricter digital copyright laws in the face of campaign contributions to her riding association from Canadian and American entertainment industries, artists, musicians and others with interests in copyright ownership.

Lee's status as a veteran was considered valuable by the Labour Party, as the party's anti-conscription stance had caused many to brand it unpatriotic — Lee, a decorated and wounded soldier, was able to counter this perception quite effectively.

The party's stance is critical in their perception of an excess of privilege for Bulgaria's ethnic minorities ; additionally, they have accused the entire Bulgarian political establishment of being corrupt, and are opposed to NATO, the Iraq War and closer ties with the USA.

She tells him that Vectivus believed in peace and learning, and that Jacen's perception of the Sith has been clouded by the Empire's reign of terror and the Jedi's philosophical and subjective stance against them.

Cotton Mather strongly challenged the perception that inoculation was against the will of God and argued that the procedure was not outside of Puritan principles.

This perception of foreign occupation, coupled with a growing race-prejudice against the African-descended West Indians led to considerable tension, as the arrival of the West Indians drove demographic change in the region.

It was that fear, that caution, that understanding, that perception on the part of Russia and its leaders that was the real deterrent against Russia committing the utterly irrational and suicidal act of plunging into a third world war in which the Soviet Union would be likely to find itself confronting a combination of the greatest industrial and economic powers in the world ".

Now battling against the increasing public perception that he was a spent force, Numan issued a series of albums and singles on his own record label, Numa.

Indian discontent led to raids against back-country settlers, and the perception that the royal government favored the Indians and the deerskin trade led many back-country white settlers to join the Sons of Liberty.

The Second World War had a profound effect on Brzezinski, stating in an interview ; " The extraordinary violence that was perpetrated against Poland did affect my perception of the world, and made me much more sensitive to the fact that a great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle.

His perception of Middle-earth is biased by a point of view that imagines that divine powers have chosen Gondor to lead the fight against evil.

He sought to repair the perception of his error against Octavius by arguing that the office of the tribune, a sacrosanct position, could be acted upon if the holder violated his oath.

Vic states those who know, know it's " hood against hood " on the inside, but the perception is black against white to the general public, with the possibility of things escalating into full-blown race war on the streets of the city.

In the time since Joyce's death, the book's admirers have struggled against public perception of the work to make exactly this argument for Finnegans Wake.

The film which truly brought about this modern perception, however was Aladdin which was marketed with a noted emphasis on Robin Williams ' role, against the actor's own wishes.

Considered against the general and functional background of Derridian différance, what Shklovskij calls “ perception ” can be considered a matrix for production of difference.

Shneur Zalman fought against the perception that was prevalent in the early years of Hasidism that the movement neglected Talmudic study by focusing too heavily on mysticism and obscurantism.

Michael, and other members of the imperial family including Grand Dukes Alexander, George, Nicholas and Dimitri and Grand Duchess Elizabeth, warned against the growing public unrest and the perception that Nicholas was governed by his German-born wife Alexandra and the self-styled holy man Rasputin.

This was a reaction against the too strong dominance of French culture in the colonies, and against the perception that Africa did not have culture developed enough to stand alongside that of Europe.

Her campaign against the former was based on a perception of its blasphemous content.

Members of the Liberal Gay Action Group campaigned wearing lapel badges emblazoned with the words, " I've been kissed by Peter Tatchell " as a protest against the perception that he was attempting to hide his sexuality ( see Bermondsey by-election, 1983 ).

A lesbian postal clerk, her sin is turning a wife against her husband, twisting the wife's perception of her spouse and the subsequent murder of the man ( who is Inès ' cousin ).

The empire began with the law and perception of the international system at the time stacked against what was a slowly modernizing country.