perceiver

Inevitably, physical prowess is equated with moral fortitude, fueling gendered stereotypes in the image the perceiver wishes to be true.

The person and the object, the perceiver and the thing perceived, feel explicitly equated.

Aristotle was thus interpreted by philosophers as grounding knowledge in sensation, and sensation was reinterpreted as knowledge of a reality external to the perceiver.

She was her own best perceiver, so I have to trust her on that.

Primary qualities of an object, such as solidity and occupancy of space, exist independently of a perceiver.