Perceptual Types

Of far more importance than sensory acuity for the individual character is the qualitative significance that one or other sensory sphere may have for one’s perceptual life—and therefore also for higher mental functions such as speaking, learning, etc. I refer to the characteristic of a person defined in this way as his or her perceptual type, which appears to me to designate the essence of this type better than any of the terms which express only its sub-functions such as “memory type” or “language type”.