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percept
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin perceptum, neuter of perceptus (“perceived”), past participle of percipi? (“to perceive”); see perceive.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??s?pt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?s?pt/
Noun
percept (plural percepts)
- (philosophy, psychology, now rare) Something perceived; the object of perception. [from 19th c.]
- 1860, William Hamilton, Lectures in Metaphysics, III.3:
- Whether it might not, in like manner, be proper to introduce the term percept for the object of perception, I shall not at present inquire.
- 1860, William Hamilton, Lectures in Metaphysics, III.3:
- (philosophy, psychology, linguistics) A perceived object as it exists in the mind of someone perceiving it; the mental impression that is the result of perceiving something. [from 19th c.]
- 1901, Charles Sanders Peirce, Grammar of Science:
- I see an inkstand on the table: that is a percept. Moving my head, I get a different percept of the inkstand.
- 1905, William James, ‘How Two Minds Can Know One Thing’, Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods:
- So far as in that world it is a stable feature, holds ink, marks paper and obeys the guidance of a hand, it is a physical pen. [...] So far as it is instable, on the contrary, coming and going with the movements of my eyes, altering with what I call my fancy, continuous with subsequent experiences of its ‘having been’ (in the past tense), it is the percept of a pen in my mind.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy:
- 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.
- 1901, Charles Sanders Peirce, Grammar of Science:
Related terms
- perception
- perceive
- perceptive
Further reading
- percept in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- percept in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- precept
percept From the web:
- what perception
- what perception means
perceive
English
Alternative forms
- perceave (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English perceiven, borrowed from Old French percevoir, perceveir, from Latin percipi?, past participle perceptus (“take hold of, obtain, receive, observe”), from per (“by, through”) + capi? (“to take”); see capable. Compare conceive, deceive, receive.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??si?v/
- (General American) IPA(key): /p??siv/
- Rhymes: -i?v
- Hyphenation: per?ceive
Verb
perceive (third-person singular simple present perceives, present participle perceiving, simple past and past participle perceived)
- (transitive) To become aware of, through the physical senses or by thinking; to see; to understand.
Synonyms
- ken
Related terms
- perception
- percept
Translations
References
- perceive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
perceive From the web:
- what perceive means
- what perceives the messages taken in by the eye
- what perceives color
- what perceived
- what is meant by perceive
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