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Sensing vs Perceiving - What's the difference?

sensing | perceiving |

As verbs the difference between sensing and perceiving

is that sensing is while perceiving is .

As nouns the difference between sensing and perceiving

is that sensing is the act of sensation while perceiving is the act by which something is perceived.

sensing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of sensation.
  • * 1987 , Brian Patrick Hendley, Plato, Time, and Education
    • Second, the list of kinds of sensings that Socrates gave was thought to be an odd one. It included pleasures, pains, desires, and fears, as well as the more familiar examples of sight, hearing, smell, and the sensings of cold and of heat.

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    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