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Perceiving vs Observing - What's the difference?

perceiving | observing |

As verbs the difference between perceiving and observing

is that perceiving is while observing is .

As nouns the difference between perceiving and observing

is that perceiving is the act by which something is perceived while observing is observation.

perceiving

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is perceived.
  • * 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
    • To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires

    observing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • observation
  • * 2009 , Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition (page 194)
    • Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.