Some remarks on the notions of perception and perception verbs

This contribution focuses on linguistic expressions such as feelings, attitudes, and perceptions, which do not involve an animate human’s actions on the world, but a certain attitude or reaction to events in the outside world. Some of the verbs relating to these phenomena are states in a Vendlerian sense. Thus, in the domain of perception, we will contrast hearing and seeing, which are static, with listening and looking, which are active, and so on.