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  • noun Plural form of percept.

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Examples

  • So this sixth sense has no special organ, it has its seat in the brain, and its sensations which are purely internal are called percepts or ideas.

    Emile Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745

  • It may be, however, that "percepts" and "concepts" differ rather in degree than in kind, and that the passage from one to the other meant a higher power of forming associations.

    The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

  • Somewhere in this process of recombination we end up with a level of abstraction sufficient that we refer to its constituent parts as ideas rather than impressions, the concepts of thought rather than the percepts of sense.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Somewhere in this process of recombination we end up with a level of abstraction sufficient that we refer to its constituent parts as ideas rather than impressions, the concepts of thought rather than the percepts of sense.

    Creative Control - Part 4 Hal Duncan 2009

  • But when he invokes the objectivity of neuroscience, it is as if "the brain" as a globally generalizable phenomenon were to be found gathering percepts on the campuses of Southern California.

    What Unitarians Know (and Sam Harris Doesn't) Marilynne Robinson 2010

  • The drawings in this chart: . . . are visual percepts, and recognizing the items from the middle column as the items on the left involves visual completion in the strictest, most basic and automatic sense.

    UNDERSTANDING COMICS: From vision to narrative? 2010

  • The drawings in this chart: . . . are visual percepts, and recognizing the items from the middle column as the items on the left involves visual completion in the strictest, most basic and automatic sense.

    Archive 2010-02-07 2010

  • Society has moved on from those very backward percepts, and very peculiar special interest groups. 


    The War On Drugs �� Time For A Change 2009

  • The implosion of Tiger's familial career reminds us that we should be very discriminate in the broader conditioning to which we accede on our percepts.

    Tiger Woods -" The Hazards Of Assumptions 2009

  • The percepts of your senses are built on by cognition and the resulting structures are what is “parsed” by the mind.

    Sensation, perception and computation « Alex McLean 2009

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