percept
Pronunciation: /ˈpɜːsɛpt/
The English word “percept” has 4 meanings listed here.
noun
- Something perceived; the object of perception.
- A perceived object as it exists in the mind of someone perceiving it; the mental impression that is the result of perceiving something.
verb
Etymology
A learned borrowing, after concept, from Classical Latin perceptum (“a proposition, principle, general idea”), from the neuter of perceptus (“perceived”), the past participle of percipiō (“to perceive”); see perceive. Coined by the Scottish metaphysician Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788–1856), in Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, published posthumously in 1860 (see the quotation).
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