Example sentences for: perception

How can you use “perception” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But a third camp, led by Microsoft's competitors, says all the company's practices are illegal--and if that perception prevails, true or not, investors may conclude that Microsoft can't thrive once it is stripped of those practices by the courts or by a settlement.

  • Or not quite: There's a perception , well founded or otherwise, that this is the sort of thing he might do.

  • In short, the perception of these terms is culture-dependent, and culture is akin to language in the sense that while a large number of people might be said to speak a language, we know that it is made up of a larger number of dialects which, in turn, are made up of a still larger number of idiolects.

  • Susan Langer, in her book Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling , has defined empathy as the direct physical reaction inherent in the perception of others, an involuntary breach of individual separateness, and to see the neural resonance, to see that the same activity patterns were being recreated in actor and observer, was to give substance to the intuition of empathy.

  • Another type of study has tested smell perception in primates, and has shown that, despite their reduced olfactory receptor gene repertoire, primates, including humans, have surprisingly good senses of smell (Laska et al.


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