Percept

Quick meaning: Percept is a noun meaning (philosophy, psychology, now rare) Something perceived; the object of perception.

Meaning

(philosophy, psychology, now rare) Something perceived; the object of perception.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, obsolete, rare) Synonym of perceive.
2. (transitive) To make perceptible or distinct, to reveal.
3. (philosophy, psychology, linguistics) A perceived object as it exists in the mind of someone perceiving it; the mental impression that is the result of perceiving something.

Example Sentences

I see an inkstand on the table: that is a percept. Moving my head, I get a different percept of the inkstand.

It may even be that the percepts detected by one sense organ are experienced as having the modality standardly associated with another.

And is not the highest speculation of it percepted and perfected by manuall instruments, and those fallacious too, as themselves complain?

Socrates remarks that when he is well he finds wine sweet, but when ill, sour. Here it is a change in the percipient that causes the change in the percept.

Word Forms

• percepts
• percepting
• percepted

Synonyms for percept

Depending on context, synonyms include perceive, perception.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include perception, perceptum, percipient, percipiency, perceptic, perceiverance.

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