unperceiving

IPA: ʌnpɝsˈivɪŋ

adjective

  • Not perceiving; devoid of perception.
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Examples of "unperceiving" in Sentences

  • SPIRIT, but Matter an unintelligent, unperceiving being.
  • Can you then conceive it possible that they should exist in an unperceiving thing?
  • Consequently, it cannot exist without the mind in an unperceiving substance, or body.
  • And, doth it not follow from your own concessions, that the perception of light and colours, including no action in it, may exist in an unperceiving substance?
  • And, it being too visibly absurd to hold that pain or pleasure can be in an unperceiving substance, men are more easily weaned from believing the external existence of the Secondary than the Primary Qualities.
  • But, secondly, if we had a new sense it could only furnish us with new ideas or sensations; and then we should have the same reason against their existing in an unperceiving substance that has been already offered with relation to figure, motion, colour and the like.
  • But it is evident from what we have already shown, that extension, figure, and motion are only ideas existing in the mind, and that an idea can be like nothing but another idea, and that consequently neither they nor their archetypes can exist in an unperceiving substance.
  • Now, for an idea to exist in an unperceiving thing is a manifest contradiction, for to have an idea is all one as to perceive; that therefore wherein colour, figure, and the like qualities exist must perceive them; hence it is clear there can be no unthinking substance or substratum of those ideas.
  • But, if you stick to the notion of an unthinking substance or support of extension, motion, and other sensible qualities, then to me it is most evidently impossible there should be any such thing, since it is a plain repugnancy that those qualities should exist in or be supported by an unperceiving substance.
  • But, say you, though it be granted that there is no thoughtless support of extension and the other qualities or accidents which we perceive, yet there may perhaps be some inert, unperceiving substance or substratum of some other qualities, as incomprehensible to us as colours are to a man born blind, because we have not a sense adapted to them.

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