Perceiving vs Perception - What's the difference?
perceiving | perception |
The act by which something is perceived.
* 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.
Conscious understanding of something.
Vision (ability )
Acuity
(cognition ) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.
As nouns the difference between perceiving and perception
is that perceiving is the act by which something is perceived while perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.As a verb perceiving
is present participle of lang=en.perceiving
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires