Axiom vs Percept - What's the difference?
axiom | percept |
(en noun); also axiomata (though, becoming less common and sometimes considered archaic)
(philosophy) A seemingly which cannot actually be proved or disproved.
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(mathematics, logic, proof theory) A fundamental of theorems. Examples: "Through a pair of distinct points there passes exactly one straight line", "All right angles are congruent".
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An established principle in some artistic practice or science that is universally received.
*1860 , William Hamilton, Lectures in Metaphysics , III.3:
*:Whether it might not, in like manner, be proper to introduce the term percept for the object of perception, I shall not at present inquire.
(psychology, philosophy) A perceived object as it exists in the mind of someone perceiving it; the mental impression that is the result of perceiving something.
*1901 , Charles Sanders Peirce, Grammar of Science :
*:I see an inkstand on the table: that is a percept'. Moving my head, I get a different ' percept of the inkstand.
*1905 , William James, ‘How Two Minds Can Know One Thing’, Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods :
*:So far as in that world it is a stable feature, holds ink, marks paper and obeys the guidance of a hand, it is a physical pen. [...] So far as it is instable, on the contrary, coming and going with the movements of my eyes, altering with what I call my fancy, continuous with subsequent experiences of its ‘having been’ (in the past tense), it is the percept of a pen in my mind.
*1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy :
*: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 .
As nouns the difference between axiom and percept
is that axiom is axiom while percept is .axiom
English
(wikipedia axiom)Noun
- The axioms read as follows. For every composable pair f'' and ''g'' the composite goes from the domain of ''g'' to the codomain of ''f''. For each object ''A'' the identity arrow goes from ''A'' to ''A . Composing any arrow with an identity arrow (supposing that the two are composable) gives the original arrow. And composition is associative.
- The axioms of political economy cannot be considered absolute truths.