New, indeed, is Luther's perception, but not modern, as anyone knows who has ever tried to make intelligible to modern students what Luther was getting at.

So, too, was the insistence on the relativity of the external world, and the ideas that language and things perceived by consciousness were poor substitutes indeed for immediate perception by pure, indwelling spirit: the opposition of pure consciousness to ratiocinating consciousness.

There was the freshness of color, the freedom of perception, the lack of self-consciousness, but with a twist that made the forms leap from the page and smack you in the eye.

As one law review article pointed out, the perception that the ADA primarily helps freeloaders was harshly satirized by The Onion in 1998 in the form of an article about the " Americans With No Abilities Act ".

This requires developing new faculties of objective spiritual perception, which Steiner maintained was possible for humanity today.

While Athanasius may have affected the general perception of Arianism, they say, his portrayal was polemical, not creative.

This perception was enhanced by the fact that the originator of the Big Bang theory, Monsignor Georges Lemaître, was a Roman Catholic priest.

A number of political scandals in the 1980s and 1990s created the impression of what was described in the British press as " sleaze ": a perception that the then Conservative government was associated with political corruption and hypocrisy.

There was some perception that sleaze may be endemic in British Politics as a whole.

The game was viewed as a rather innocuous pastime – unlike the perception that diversions such as card playing or dancing were considered " works of the Devil " as held by many 19th-century Protestant groups.

Khrushchev increased the perception of a missile gap when he loudly boasted to the world that the USSR was building missiles " like sausages " whose numbers and capabilities actually were nowhere close to his assertion.

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.

It is also to be noted that by anathemizing Pope Leo because of the tone and content of his tome, as per Alexandrine Theology perception, Pope Dioscorus was found guilty of doing so without due process ; in other words, the Tome of Leo was not a subject of heresy in the first place, but it was a question of questioning the reasons behind not having it either acknowledged or read at the Second Council of Ephesus in AD 449.

After a series of operations during a four-month hospitalisation, his doctors determined that the damage could not be fully repaired and Bowie was left with faulty depth perception and a permanently dilated pupil.

British public perception of the engagement was initially as a serious defeat, at a time when popular opinion expected great things from the Royal Navy.

It was to be the honest truth of perception.

While he has seen one, and the perception he based his belief that the one he saw was of a real barn, all the other barn-like buildings he saw were façades.

" The tone of the comments was exacerbated by a perception by some within Germany of the state of Bavaria as " arrogant ".

[...] Koheleth's focus on individual experience, in particular the perception of pleasure, bears a significant resemblance to Hellenistic popular philosophy, whose central purpose was to find the way to individual happiness by the use of the powers of reason.

Aristotle was considered to give a more important position to sense perception than Plato, and commentators in the middle ages summarized one of his positions as " nihil in intellectu nisi prius fuerit in sensu " ( Latin for " nothing in the intellect without first being in the senses ").

In order to distinguish between the two perceptions, objects seen by O were shot through a lens-gauze, blurring his perception while E's perception was shot without gauze or filters, keeping the images sharp.

Her eccentricity, perception and wit, as well as her sharp wit and sweeping pronouncements (“ I adore that pink!

Despite this early perception, the eagerness in which Mulroney's ministry embraced the MacDonald Commission's advocacy of bilateral free trade would come to indicate a sharp drift toward neo-liberal economic policies, comparable to such contemporaries as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

This lay in sharp contrast to the widely held perception that concerns over Iraq only came to the forefront after the September 11 attacks in 2001.

Schad's paintings are characterized " an artistic perception so sharp that it seems to cut beneath the skin ", according to Schmied.

Magic motion attempts to create a motion blur closer to the human perception of movement, meaning the resulting video stream will show motion blur as well as sharp edges for fast moving objects.

They are characterized by " an artistic perception so sharp that it seems to cut beneath the skin ", according to Wieland Schmied, who calls Schad the " prototypical possessor of the ' cool gaze ' which distinguishes this movement from earlier forms of realism ".

" Jaynes draws a sharp distinction between consciousness (" introspectable mind-space ") and other mental processes such as cognition, learning, and sense and perception — which occur in all animals.

When prey is located, both eyes can be focused in the same direction, giving sharp stereoscopic vision and depth perception.

An " S ", by contrast, is assumed to be guided more by the judgment / perception axis, and thus divided into the " SJ " ( guardian, traditionalist ) or " SP " ( performer, artisan ) temperament.

By contrast, teasing never touches on the core issue, never makes a serious criticism judging the target with irony ; it never harms the target's conduct, ideology and position of power ; it never undermines the perception of his morality and cultural dimension.

Brown exists as a color perception only in the presence of a brighter color contrast yellow, orange, red, or rose objects are still perceived as such if the general illumination level is low, despite reflecting the same amount of red or orange light as a brown object would in normal lighting conditions.

For it is a peculiarity of humans, in contrast to the other animals, to have perception of good and bad, just and unjust, and the like ; and the community in these things makes a household or city.

Yellow lenses increase color contrast and improve depth perception.

Yet in stark contrast with this positive view, research on the history of the metronome and its influence on performance practice reveals criticisms of metronome use, and highlights differences of " performance practice " and cultural perception / values between the current modern European / Western society ( which values the metronome ), and the same society during previous times ( beginning of the 19th century and earlier: classical / romantic / baroque eras etc.

In contrast to the common perception of lush tropical vegetation that goes culturally hand-in-hand with the appellation " Polynesia ", the Marquesas are remarkably dry islands.

Between the colour bars and proper adjustment of brightness and contrast controls to the limits of perception of the first sub-black bar, an analogue receiver ( or other equipment such as VTRs ) can be adjusted to provide impressive fidelity.

Griffor emphasizes that in conventional discussion “ the self-defensive activity of each participant's idiosyncracy prevents listening ” and that, in contrast, giving full attention to what the other participants mean can free the mind from socio-cultural accumulation, allow a free flow of meaning between people in a dialogue and give rise to shared perception and the creation of shared meaning in the sense of shared significance, intention, purpose and value.

In contrast to the perception of the Irish Free State's policy of preserving areas of Irish-speaking countryside, activists in Northern Ireland concentrated on ensuring Irish could survive in urban contexts, organising trips to Irish-speaking areas to bolster urban enthusiasm.

This manual of Titchener's provided students with in-depth outlines of procedure for experiments on optical illusions, Weber's Law, visual contrast, after-images, auditory and olfactory sensations, perception of space, ideas, and associations between ideas, as well as descriptions proper behavior during experiments and general discussion of psychological concepts.

He found that the photoreceptor cells in the eye are interconnected in such a way that when one is stimulated, others nearby are depressed, thus enhancing the contrast in light patterns and sharpening the perception of shapes.

Empiricism emphasizes the role of experience and evidence, especially sensory perception, in the formation of ideas, over the notion of innate ideas or tradition in contrast to, for example, rationalism which relies upon reason and can incorporate innate knowledge.

He has made a long study of visual inhibition, the process whereby a neuron firing in response to one group of retinal cells can inhibit the firing of another neuron ; this allows perception of relative contrast.

A contrast effect is the enhancement or diminishment, relative to normal, of perception, cognition and related performance as a result of immediately previous or simultaneous exposure to a stimulus of lesser or greater value in the same dimension.

Successive contrast occurs when the perception of currently viewed stimuli is modulated by previously viewed stimuli.

In the early 20th century, Wilhelm Wundt identified contrast as a fundamental principle of perception, and since then the effect has been confirmed in many different areas.

In contrast, since the French Revolution, the state was increasingly perceived as belonging to " the People ", a perception shared — though in different forms — by democracy, communism and fascism.

Many times this definition is expanded from a simple perception based on contrast to include abstract ( i. e. non-visual ) concepts such as melody / harmony, subject / background and positive / negative space.

' Totul ' was a list of elements of everyday life in Bucharest at the time, composed as a comment on the contrast between the official view of life in Romania and the alternative perception of its monotonous shabbiness.

The poem is the contrast of innocence and experience, but also the contrast between perception of joys and sorrows.

In contrast to vision and hearing, the two traditional senses employed in HCI, the sense of touch is proximal: it senses objects that are in contact with the body, and it is bidirectonal in that it supports both perception and acting on the environment.