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Percept vs Perceive - What's the difference?

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Perceive is a related term of percept.



As a noun percept

is something perceived; the object of perception.

As a verb perceive is

to see, to be aware of, to understand.

percept

Noun

(en noun)
  • *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 .
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    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Verb

  • To see, to be aware of, to understand.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=Colin Allen , title=Do I See What You See? , volume=100, issue=2, page=168 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.}}

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