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percept

noun
/ˈpɜːsɛpt/UK/ˈpɝsɛpt/US/pəˈsɛpt/UK/pərˈsɛpt/US

Etymology

A learned borrowing, after concept, from Classical Latin perceptum (“a proposition, principle, general idea”), from the neuter of perceptus (“perceived”), the past participle of percipiō (“to perceive”); see perceive. Coined by the Scottish metaphysician Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788–1856), in Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, published posthumously in 1860 (see the quotation).

  1. learned borrowing from perceptum — “a proposition, principle, general idea”

Definitions

  1. Something perceived

    Something perceived; the object of perception.

    • It may even be that the percepts detected by one sense organ are experienced as having the modality standardly associated with another.

  2. A perceived object as it exists in the mind of someone perceiving it

    A perceived object as it exists in the mind of someone perceiving it; the mental impression that is the result of perceiving something.

    • I see an inkstand on the table: that is a percept. Moving my head, I get a different percept of the inkstand.
    • Socrates remarks that when he is well he finds wine sweet, but when ill, sour. Here it is a change in the percipient that causes the change in the percept.

  3. Synonym of perceive.

    • And is not the highest speculation of it percepted and perfected by manuall instruments, and those fallacious too, as themselves complain?
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To make perceptible or distinct, to reveal.

      • The lighter and darker shading of surfaces can be understood as a means for discrimination in percepting each viewpoint, and at the same time as spatial articulation — back, forward, oblique — of the pictorial space of the picture-plane.
      • There was a nun of modesty, who with service was heavy / And big with sweet acts all her sweet life long; / Enough wisdom she had for twenty ordinary women / Who percepted love as a breath, and as a song.
      • Chemo‐reception, biological membranes, and a discussion of how the reception of taste and odour substances are percepted in the brain, are addressed in Chapter 2.

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Derived

perceptron, subpercept

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA