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- noun Plural form of
percipient .
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Examples
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Its cod-academic talk about "percipients" and human beings as "pattern-seeking creatures" exists solely to soften us up for the thrills to come.
Variety.com 2010
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Its cod-academic talk about "percipients" and human beings as "pattern-seeking creatures" exists solely to soften us up for the thrills to come.
Variety.com 2010
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The patterns of display, behavior, location, percipients, appearance, etc., may be even more important in revealing new, real data than differing lists of the top ten cases.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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The overall patterns of display over time of the best cases need to be more deeply and scientifically studied, as do the percipients and the effects upon them and others who they communicate their experiences to, from a cultural and sociological perspective.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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About 250 people took part in the study as percipients; together they produced 2,200 drawings.
ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006
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About 250 people took part in the study as percipients; together they produced 2,200 drawings.
ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006
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About 250 people took part in the study as percipients; together they produced 2,200 drawings.
ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006
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Considerations about the causal theory of perception persuade him to place the percept into the percipients brain.
Neutral Monism Stubenberg, Leopold 2005
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Thus the red apple percept finally finds a physical home, viz., the physical entity in the percipients brain which it helps to constitute (proximally).
Neutral Monism Stubenberg, Leopold 2005
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Rather than arguing that things convey their reality to percipients which would imply that we recognize as real only those things possessed of "whatness", James argues that the sense of reality is a constituent part of the percipient's experience that may in fact be independent of the object of that experience.
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