单词 | percept |
释义 | perceptn. Philosophy and Psychology. 1. An object of perception. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > [noun] > object of perception ideatea1629 conceivable1659 conceptiblea1676 cogitable1678 ideatumc1708 percepta1856 cognitum1875 perceptum1887 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [noun] > perception > that which is perceived phenomenona1704 discernment1730 percepta1856 a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. iii. 42 Whether it might not..be proper to introduce the term percept for the object of perception. 1880 19th Cent. Feb. 355 In any act of perception the matter that is percept or object is commonly outside the organism of the percipient. 1909 Mind 18 368 Each object of perception, or each percept..is as such unitary, exclusive, and unchanging. 1964 M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia xiii. 78 Not only is it a matter of defective perception, but it is also one of inadequate association of lexical percepts. 1988 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 39 378 It may even be that the percepts detected by one sense organ are experienced as having the modality standardly associated with another. 2. The mental product or result of perceiving something (as distinguished from the action); a way in which something is perceived mentally. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > [noun] > product of perception imagea1393 knowledgea1398 appearancea1400 utter-wit1495 cognizance1635 conusance1635 cognoscence1647 perception1690 cognitiona1822 trans-impressiona1834 percept1864 vestige1885 1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic 11 A Percept or Intuition is a single representation..a Concept is a collective (general or universal) representation of a whole class of things. 1876 H. Maudsley Physiol. of Mind v. 273 A percept is the abstract of sensations, so a concept is the abstract of percepts. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 399 Word-images as integral components of percepts and concepts. 1949 Mind 58 450 William James sometimes used the word ‘percept’ to refer to the content of consciousness during perception. 1976 Word 27 226 Each physical stimulus, after interpretation by the mental processes, will result in a percept. 1995 F. Dretske in R. Audi Cambr. Dict. Philos. 570/1 This subjective, directly apprehended object has been called by various names: a sensation, percept, sense-datum, sensum, and sometimes..Vorstellung. 2010 D. Lewis-Williams Conceiving God 144 Altered states of consciousness often start with geometric mental images. Researchers have given these percepts various names... I prefer the term ‘entoptic’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). perceptv.ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [verb (transitive)] fredec888 haveeOE yfeeleOE feelc1175 perceivec1330 comprehendc1374 find?a1425 perceiver1495 to take up1607 sensatea1652 percept1652 to suck ina1661 sense1661 appreciate1787 absorb1840 sensize1861 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια v. 59 And is not the highest speculation of it percepted and perfected by manuall instruments; and those fallacious too, as themselves complain? 2. transitive. To make perceptible or distinct, to reveal. Cf. percept n. ΚΠ 1946 D. M. Hoffman tr. L. Moholy-Nagy New Vision (ed. 3) 34 The lighter and darker shading of surfaces can be understood as a means for discrimination in percepting each viewpoint. 1950 R. Eberhart in J. Ciardi Mid-Cent. Amer. Poets 231 Who percepted love as a breath, and as a song. 2001 Sensor Rev. (Nexis) 21 323 A discussion of how the reception of taste and odour substances are percepted in the brain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1856v.1652 |
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