percept
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Noun — Something that is perceived; what is taken in through the senses.
Etymology
A learned borrowing, modelled on 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. It was coined by the Scottish metaphysician Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788–1856), in Le...
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