noun
percept
Percept (noun) means something that is perceived; what is taken in through the senses.
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1
Something that is perceived; what is taken in through the senses.
"It may even be that the percepts detected by one sense organ are experienced as having the modality standardly associated with another."
— Benny Shanon, Remarks on the Modularity of Mind (1988)
2
The mental picture formed in someone's mind as a result of sensing something.
"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."
— Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy (1946)
"I see an inkstand on the table: that is a percept. Moving my head, I get a different percept of the inkstand."
— Charles Sanders Peirce, Grammar of Science (1901)
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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 Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, published posthumously in 1860.
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What is the meaning of percept?
"percept" (noun) means something that is perceived; what is taken in through the senses.
What is another word for percept?
Other words for "percept" include perception.
What are the different meanings of percept?
"percept" has 2 main meanings: 1. Something that is perceived; what is taken in through the senses; 2. The mental picture formed in someone's mind as a result of sensing something.
