Precept vs Perception - What's the difference?
precept | perception |
A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
* 2006 : ,
** I need hardly point out that Pinker doesn't really believe anything of what he writes, at least if example is stronger evidence of belief than precept .
* 1891 :
** He found a people in the extreme of barbarism living in caves, feeding upon the bloody flesh of animals they killed in hunting; he taught them many things, so that by his example, and for generations after he left them by his precepts , they advanced to high civilization.
(legal) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
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 precept and perception
is that precept is a rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct while perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.As a verb precept
is to teach by precepts.precept
English
(wikipedia precept)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)The Gift of Language