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- noun Plural form of
percept .
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Examples
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So this sixth sense has no special organ, it has its seat in the brain, and its sensations which are purely internal are called percepts or ideas.
Emile Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745
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It may be, however, that "percepts" and "concepts" differ rather in degree than in kind, and that the passage from one to the other meant a higher power of forming associations.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897
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Somewhere in this process of recombination we end up with a level of abstraction sufficient that we refer to its constituent parts as ideas rather than impressions, the concepts of thought rather than the percepts of sense.
Archive 2009-02-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Somewhere in this process of recombination we end up with a level of abstraction sufficient that we refer to its constituent parts as ideas rather than impressions, the concepts of thought rather than the percepts of sense.
Creative Control - Part 4 Hal Duncan 2009
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But when he invokes the objectivity of neuroscience, it is as if "the brain" as a globally generalizable phenomenon were to be found gathering percepts on the campuses of Southern California.
What Unitarians Know (and Sam Harris Doesn't) Marilynne Robinson 2010
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The drawings in this chart: . . . are visual percepts, and recognizing the items from the middle column as the items on the left involves visual completion in the strictest, most basic and automatic sense.
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The drawings in this chart: . . . are visual percepts, and recognizing the items from the middle column as the items on the left involves visual completion in the strictest, most basic and automatic sense.
Archive 2010-02-07 2010
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Society has moved on from those very backward percepts, and very peculiar special interest groups.
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The implosion of Tiger's familial career reminds us that we should be very discriminate in the broader conditioning to which we accede on our percepts.
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The percepts of your senses are built on by cognition and the resulting structures are what is “parsed” by the mind.
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