different between percept vs statute

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)

1. (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.

2. (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.

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English statut, from Old French statut, from Late Latin statutum (“a statute”), neuter singular of Latin statutus, past participle of statu? (“I set up, establish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stæt?u?t/

Noun

statute (countable and uncountable, plural statutes)

1. Written law, as laid down by the legislature.
2. (law, common law) Legislated rule of society which has been given the force of law by those it governs.

Derived terms

• statutory
• statutorily
• statutory rape

Translations

Further reading

• statute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• statute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• tautest

Latin

Participle

stat?te

1. vocative masculine singular of stat?tus

References

• statute in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers