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noun
Something perceived; the object of perception.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, psychology, sciences
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noun
A perceived object as it exists in the mind of someone perceiving it; the mental impression that is the result of perceiving something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, sciences
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verb
Synonym of perceive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare, transitive
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Synonyms: perceive
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verb
To make perceptible or distinct, to reveal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: perception, perceptual experience
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Broader terms: representation, mental representation, internal representation
Narrower terms: figure, ground, visual percept, visual image
History
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).
Learned borrowing from Classical Latin percept-, the past participial stem of percipiō (“to perceive”). In etymology 2 sense 2, perhaps independently from percept (“something perceived”).
