What you see in a conventional humdrum library is merely what is on the surface of perceptibility. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Codex Infinitum] Reference
The light colours should be adapted to the illumination intensity involved and to the desired colour perceptibility. From Wordnik.com. [4. Electrical Energy] Reference
As such, it is dependent precisely upon the contingent assumptions of perceptibility and significance that it seems to validate. From Wordnik.com. ['Music à La Mode'] Reference
Its impact on vision, for example, is to acutely intensify the perceptibility of moving objects, or, if the field of vision is static, visual gradients. From Wordnik.com. [Tranquility] Reference
Since material extension is a necessary condition for their perceptibility, no particular could appear to have compresent properties unless it were material. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference
Global Warming is slowly but perceptibility making its presence felt from the melting artic ice packs to the changing Migration Habits of birds all over the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Canary In The Mineshaft Is The Purple Finch] Reference
Therefore, if any sensible object be indivisible, such object, if set in the said extreme place whence imperceptibility ends and perceptibility begins, will have to be both visible and invisible their objects, whether regarded in general or at the same time; but this is impossible. From Wordnik.com. [On Sense and the Sensible] Reference
Now the objects attracting the sun-rays to themselves — illuminated by a fire of the sense-order — are necessarily of the sense-order; there is perceptibility because there has been a union of things at once external to each other and continuous, contiguous, in direct contact, two extremes in one line. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
In a recent article examining researchers™ use of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana as a model organism, Sabina Leonelli (2008) points out that models can be abstract (vs. concrete) in different ways: absolutely, in terms of their sense perceptibility; or relatively, in terms of their physical meaning with respect to the phenomena represented or the range of phenomena they are taken to represent. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Genome Project] Reference
Reduce the perceptibility of the location discovery patterns. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
His perceptibility and eye for goal have kept United in poll position to win the Premier League. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
But that thing of his dissembling was only subject to his perceptibility, not to his will determinate. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
The direction arrow can also be displayed in a high-contrast color for a good perceptibility even on bright day light. From Wordnik.com. [msmobiles.com - Windows Mobile news] Reference
If desired, the gradation of intensities here employed may be refined to the threshold of perceptibility, or beyond it. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
But a bigness which depends upon perceptibility, not measurement, derives from a concept widely different from the mathematical. From Wordnik.com. [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference
A proof of the great reduction in atmospheric glare was afforded by the perceptibility of the corona four minutes after totality was over. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
But the distinctness of objects, i. e., the perceptibility of a light-impression, depends also upon the absolute brightness and the differences in brightness. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
As to the argument drawn from dreams and hallucinations which might be brought against this, I have shown how it is set aside by a distinction between perceptibility and truth. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps] Reference
This is the effect of love, as being the heat of life, to prevent its extinction, and with it the extinction of all cheerfulness, vivacity, and perceptibility of delight, grounded in its own love. From Wordnik.com. [The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love] Reference
Had he any thing to envy, had c any thing to excite his anger, except bis own conceptions? and thel'e he was at liberty to bring, or not to bring into exi - fience or perceptibility, even at his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Fool of Quality; Or, the History of Henry Earl of Moreland.] Reference
But our inward perceptibility experiences emotions which point to a supreme Being, the Almighty, who created the sun and the earth and all the stars, on whom all we know is dependent and to whom all is subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Dreams] Reference
There is therefore in the mere perceptibility of a thing a certain prophecy of its beauty; if it were not on the road to beauty, if it had no approach to fitness to our faculties of perception, the object would remain eternally unperceived. From Wordnik.com. [The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory] Reference
The idea that nature could be governed by an aspiration towards beauty is, therefore, to be rejected as a confusion, but at the same time we must confess that this confusion is founded on a consciousness of the subjective relation between the perceptibility, rationality, and beauty of things. From Wordnik.com. [The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory] Reference
Wolff, and Redfern on bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, cartilage, periosteum and osteogenesis -- or, more often, Keith's compact and lucid analysis of their experiments and conclusions -- Linda let loose in the scented air of a log fire these varied melodies which attuned the mind to extraordinary perceptibility. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement] Reference
So, when a philosopher arose who announced a doctrine of evolution, in which the progress of matter toward perceptibility would be traced together with the advance of the mind toward rationality, in which the complication of correspondences between the external and the internal would be followed step by step, in which change would become the very substance of things -- to him all eyes were turned. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference
Therefore, if it were the case that it arose (as perceptible only from having such a truly existent relation with the universal) “perceptibility,” (then it itself would be non-perceptible and therefore) could not exist as an existent phenomenon (because it couldn’t be known). From Wordnik.com. [Four Hundred Verse Treatise on the Actions of a Bodhisattva's Yoga ��� Chapters 13 - 16] Reference
(10) If it arose (from its causes) as something that was perceptible, there’d be no (need) for a vase (to have) any qualities (such as having an inherent relation with some category, such as the universal “perceptibility,” in order for it to be seen, as you Vaisheshikas would claim. From Wordnik.com. [Four Hundred Verse Treatise on the Actions of a Bodhisattva's Yoga ��� Chapters 13 - 16] Reference
With the perceptibility that some can boast, it would require but a short time for them to enact laws sufficient to govern themselves, which is all that the most aspiring can covet; convinced as they are that, as in families, so likewise in government, the mild, indulgent parent who would consult the greatest good of the greatest number, is rewarded with agreeable and honorable children; while the one who is unjust, partial, and severe, is proportionably recompensed for his indiscretion. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference
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