A Perception (n.) 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.
Perception (n.) 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.
A Perception (n.) 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.
A Perception (n.) 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.
Perception (n.) is paradoxical in that the thing exist only insofar as someone can perceive it. This is because, rather than being some kind of ideal unity, the thing is in fact nothing more than a totality open to a horizon of indefinite number of perspectival views which blend with one another according to a given style.
Perception (n.) is neither science, nor an act, but the background from which all acts stand out.
Perception (n.) is neither static nor permanent but, like the experience of the poetic image, it involves a dynamic and ever-changing process.
Perception (n.) is not a science of the world, it is not even an act, a deliberate taking up of a position... it is the background from which all acts stand out and it is presupposed by them.
Perception (n.) is not presumed true, but defined for us as access to truth.
A Perception (n.) is paradoxical because the perceived thing is in itself paradoxical: It exists only insofar as someone can perceive it.
Perception (n.) is, inexcapably, the foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence. This thesis does not destroy rationality or the absolute. It only tries to bring them down to earth.
Perception (n.) is the background from which all acts stand out, and is presupposed by them. Perception is the world insofar as the world is not an object such that I have in my possession the law of its making... perception, as well as the world, are the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and my explicit perception.
Perception (n.) is the basis of all knowledge. The body is, in turn, the basis of perception. Gestalt psychology forms the framework for his exploration of perception.
Perception (n.) is nothing without accounting for the investments of meanings and values, with the contextual and the indeterminate,.
Perception (n.) is, at its most basic level, always operating on gestalts, or the meaningful whole of figure against ground.
Perception (n.) is marked by a kind of “perceptual faith", a pre-reflective conviction that perception presents us with the world as it actually is, even though this perception is mediated, for each of us, by our bodily senses.
Perception (n.) is always aiming toward truth, toward a truth, for any truth that it reveals is contingent and revisable.
Perception (n.) is always operating on a phenomenal field. Things appear to be appearing directly to perception because perception has a tendency to forget itself in favor of the perceived that it discloses.