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Basic component in the formation of a concept
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percept
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept [syn: perception , perceptual experience ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context psychology philosophy now rare English) Something perceived; the object of perception. (from 19th c.) 2 (context psychology philosophy English) A perceived object as it exists in the mind of someone perceiving it; the mental impression that ...
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Percept may refer to: Percept (psychology) - a stimulus of perception . Percept (artificial intelligence) - the input that an intelligent agent is perceiving at any given moment. Percept (information technology) - a term used in the pricing of data transfer. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1837, from Latin perceptum "(a thing) perceived," noun use of neuter past participle of percipere (see perceive ). Formed on model of concept .
Usage examples of percept.
In political life, exclusionary legislation, attitudes toward race, the practices of medicine, law, and administration--the sciences contributing to and profiting from the Final Solution--may be understood as political actions, distinguished by delusional percepts regarding the status of Jews, their treatment, and the phobia of them.
Whenever he passes to the perception of another dog, he undoubtedly interprets this with the general ideas already obtained from this earlier percept of a dog.
To say, therefore, that to gain a concept he compares the qualities found in several individual things is not strictly true, for if his first percept becomes a type by which he interprets other dogs, his first experience is already a concept.
I am not referring here to that philosophical tradition which argues that the only true knowledge can be of my own interior world, of percepts and the present instant of consciousness which illuminates them, but to something more troubling.
The underlying metaphysical supposition here is that the real world conceived by science, beyond the veil of subjective appearances, exists independently of humans percepts and concepts.
The percept system in a sense is overperceiving, is presenting the self portion of the brain too much.