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percipient
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from Latin percipientem , present participle of percipere (see perceive ). Earlier in English as a noun, "one who perceives" (1660s).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Having the ability to perceive, especially to perceive quickly. 2 (context psychology education dated English) Perceiving events only in the moment, without reflection, as a very young child. n. 1 (context philosophy psychology English) One who perceives ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving; "clear mind"; "a percipient author" [syn: clear ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Percipient \Per*cip"i*ent\, a. [L. percipiens, -entis, p. pr. of percipere. See Perceive .] Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being. --Bentley. -- n. One who, or that which, is percipient. --Glanvill.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Thus one percipient observer, Richard Hofstadter, in 1955.
Usage examples of percipient.
Eventually the percipient may write a book or pamphlet himself, combining what he has read with what he has been told by the entity.
If the percipient was an Indian, the propaganda was aimed at a nearby tribe.
We do not ask about the percipient or about the process, but about the perceived.
Accordingly there is no unique factor in nature which for every percipient is pre-eminently and necessarily the present.
This percipient event is roughly speaking the bodily life of the incarnate mind.
Language in this statement suppresses all reference to any factors other than the percipient mind and the green leaf and the relation of sense-awareness.
Self-change in nature is change in the quality of the standpoint of the percipient event.
This peculiar relation is the relation of cogredience between the percipient event and the duration.
Namely, amid the alternative time-systems which nature offers there will be one with a duration giving the best average of cogredience for all the subordinate parts of the percipient event.
Thus the character of the percipient event determines the time-system immediately evident in nature.
I call the situation, is thus exhibited as the sense-awareness of a relation between the blue, the percipient event of the observer, the situation, and intervening events.
The awareness of the observer depends on the position of the percipient event in this systematic correlation.
All we know of the characters of the events of nature is based on the analysis of the relations of situations to percipient events.
For example, for any one percipient event, the situation of a sense-object of sight is apt also to be the situations of sense-objects of sight, of touch, of smell, and of sound.
Also the event which is the situation will have the relation of situation to the object only for one particular percipient event.