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is a dialectical relationship between the world and us: It is what makes the world appear to us, and at the same time that which reveals to us that we are in the world.

For Merleau-Ponty, perception is a dialectical relationship between the worldand us: it is what makes the world appear to us, and at the same time thatwhich reveals to us that we are in the world. He emphasizes the body to anextent that far surpasses the gestaltist... we perceive with our bodies, the bodyis the way through which we enter the world.

is a kind of perceptional realism that states that consciousness is publically graspable and in principle correctable by the experience of others.

Consciousness thus now commences anew with its new implicit criterion the assumption that since the contents of consciousness are 'universal' they must be publicly graspable by others as well. Hegel's name for this type of perceptual realism in which any individual's idiosyncratic private apprehension will always be in principle correctable by the experience of others is 'perception'

is a living communication with the world such that when I see an object, I am barely aware of my seeing, but rather wholly engrossed by the object.

When I see an object, I am barely aware of my seeing, but rather wholly engrossed by the object. (Landes 188) . . . Perception is in fact a 'living communication with the world' (PhP, 53). (LANDES 195)

is a mode of engagement with the world done so as to retrieve useful information about its orientation (such that a subject can be oriented in a situation, a world).

In this sense, perception is really about a mode of engaging with the world so as to retrieve useful information about its orientation. More importantly, Simondon argues that information, through perception, allows the subject to be oriented in a situation, a world. (net)

is a perception with the body. To perceive is to inhabit time and space with our bodies. We are bodies-within-the-world such that, even when our body is extended, like a blind man's stick, the stick is not a middle term but a part of his bodily perception. His sense of touch is at the stick's end.

Why is the body so important' Because we perceive with our bodies:perception is to inhabit time and space with our bodies. We are bodies-withinthe-world.We are not simply in time or space like any other object, we lifetime, we live space, they are both features of our bodies. That the bodyinhabits time and space means that we can extend ourselves in thesecategories, we can outstretch our bodies and transcend the limits of time, and we can change our mode of being-in-the-world, by appropriating and acquirethings around us. Thus, the things are no longer simply objects, since theybecome part of us and we extend ourselves in them:''The blind man's stick has ceased to be an object for him, and is nolonger perceived for itself... its point has become an area of sensitivity,extending the scope and active radius of touch, and providing a parallelto sight. In the exploration of things, the length of the stick does notenter expressly as a middle term: the blind man is rather aware of it

is already influenced by a far more invasive and pervasive pedagogy of habitus which is neither in people's minds, nor even bodily.

SYLE MORE BASIC THAN PERCEPTION (PERCEPTION COMES AFTER)Bourdieu notes that 'perception is already influenced by this much more invasive pedagogy that bourdeau is interested in' (in Dreyfus lecture) .. It isn't in people's minds it isn't even bodily. It's really pervasive.

is always true. That is, insofar as perception is subjective, if the thing being looked at is looked at, then it is looked at properly... it can only be perceived in that way.

Heidegger, 'perception is always true' (Heidegger, 1927b: 33), meaning that insofar as perception is subjective, if the thing being looked at is looked at is looked at properly, it can only be perceived in that way. However, like Nietzsche, Heidegger holds that we know the world not just through sense-perception but through experience of the world, through its resistance to our will. Heidegger, like Husserl and Aristotle before him, also believed that some things are known before we ever hold a discourse about them, they are the things that are self-evident, apophantic, and which show themselves without our having to make a judgment about them.

is an act that happens in wholes, not in elementary sensations. We see a person as a whole, rather than a collection of body parts. We greet a person as a whole rather than greeting first the outstretched hand.

we perceive in wholes, not in elementary sensations hence,the body acquires a much more central role in philosophy and epistemology than earlier assumed.

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