Maurice Merleau-Ponty on Perception

In his highly influential work Phenomenology of Perception (originally published in 1945), the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote the following about perception. These words can remind us that whatever we perceive through our senses, already has a sense. Otherwise, we could not perceive ‘it’ – ‘it’ already being ‘something’.

“Perception is precisely this act that creates, all at once, out of the constellation of givens, the sense that ties them together. Perception does not merely discover the sense they have, but rather, sees to it that they have a sense.”

_{Maurice Merleau-Ponty}

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