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sense impression - an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation; "a sensation of touch"

aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience

perception - the process of perceiving

limen, threshold - the smallest detectable sensation

masking - the blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation; "he studied auditory masking by pure tones"

visual sensation, vision - the perceptual experience of seeing; "the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual sensation of intense light"

odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, smell, odor - the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form; "she loved the smell of roses"

gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste, taste perception, taste sensation - the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus; "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste"

auditory sensation, sound - the subjective sensation of hearing something; "he strained to hear the faint sounds"

synaesthesia, synesthesia - a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated

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"Well," said Tarzan, "if you had been born without eyes you could not understand sense impressions that the eyes of others transmit to their brains, and as you have both been born without any sense of smell I am afraid you cannot understand how I can know that there is a man there."

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If a sense impression is a conscious rather than a physical state, it should have a conscious mode of inherence and causality, which means that there is something it is "like" to be in such a state.

Revisiting the myth: Husserl and Sellars on the given

Her writing is sharpened by travel in that every sense impression is recorded as if it is wholly new and unfamiliar.

The Welsh poet who fused touch and sight into sound; Dr Zoe Skoulding sings the praises of Welsh poet - and lesser-known contemporary of Dylan Thomas - Lynette Roberts

Establish a classic hearsay exception such as the Excited Utterance Exception or Present Sense Impression, and a caller's statement will likely be considered a non-testimonial Confrontation Clause Exception under Crawford v.

Pulling an Abusive Rabbit Out of the Hat

the present sense impression and excited utterance exceptions, in

GOLDILOCKS AND THE RULE 803 HEARSAY EXCEPTIONS

as a present sense impression, which is a contemporaneous statement by a

The reliability of assault victims' immediate accounts: evidence from trauma studies

(1) although the present sense impression exception is one of the rules least feared by law students, the United states Court of appeals for the Ninth Circuit confronted a unique situation that would be prime for any law school exam in United States v.

Evidence - present sense and common sense: stretching the 803(1) hearsay exception to its limits

THE TENSION BETWEEN THE MODERN PRESENT SENSE IMPRESSION EXCEPTION AND ITS HISTORICAL RATIONALE II.

Facebook, Twitter, and the uncertain future of present sense impressions

our common sense impression of a temporal series of unfolding, successive moments that occur in space).

A contested revolution

Even where an e-mail message was not composed with the type of spontaneity to qualify as an excited utterance, it may, nonetheless, reflect a different type of spontaneity sufficient to admit the e-mail message under the present sense impression exception to the hearsay rule.

Evidence at the electronic frontier: introducing e-mail at trial in commercial litigation

Thus Fernandez Santamaria in the second chapter ("God's First Provision") examines Vives's analysis of the rational tools at human disposal, including his assignment of the roles of sense impression, imagination, memory, and "fantasy" (which "elaborates and refines" impressions, 22).

The Theater of Man: J. L. Vives on Society

If we are to know that minds exist, we must have some idea of them, which requires that we have some sense impression of them.

DAVID HUME