We are able to represent not only visual percepts but also sounds, smells, tastes or feelings, often so vividly that they appear as almost actually existent.
We thus go up from particulars to generals; from percepts to concepts; from lower concepts to higher concepts.
Perception plays a most important place in memory, for upon the clearness of the percepts depends to a great degree the clearness of the impressions made upon the memory.
In grammar our particular ideas arising from Percepts are usually denoted by proper nouns--our general ideas arising from Concepts are usually denoted by common nouns.
Consequently, like or equal percepts must be connected with the colors which are yet independent of the colors.
Consequently there is no other escape than to imagine the qualitatively unlike percepts of the two series as necessarily connected with other percepts which are qualitatively alike.
It is a quite universal phenomenon in psychology that certain qualitatively quite different series of percepts mutually awaken and reproduce one another and in a certain aspect produce the appearance of sameness or similarity.
On the other hand recognition, conformably to the principles of psychology, is possible only with percepts which are the same in quality.
In this process are successively recalled to consciousness all thepercepts which were connected with the percept that was lost, and with them, finally, that, too, is brought to light.
In such an event, of course, and if the supposition is correct, the magnitudes of the residua with which the percepts or representations are coalesced (the helps to coalescence) are of cardinal influence.
In the first place the relations seen by the child are immediate relations: they exist between simple percepts or images; the remote and the general are beyond his reach.
But judgment goes much farther than to assist in building percepts and concepts.
The sage, on the other hand, is not limited to his immediate percepts or their images.
The mechanism of thinking: Sensations and percepts as elements in thinking.
How judgment enters into the forming of our percepts may be seen from the illustration just given.
Images are needed wherever the perceptswhich they represent would be of service.
Few if any images are exact recalls of formerpercepts of objects.
Two men perceive the same object = they have like percepts, while both percepts are only representative of the same object; 7.
Already, I have taken the preliminary steps in this direction by adopting the physiological conception of trial percepts and applying it to dream interpretation.
The concept of a dozen chairs is not made up of 12 percepts of single chairs; it comprises only two mental products,--the general concept chair and the undivided multiplication by 12.
The stage of predominant sense-activity is followed by that of memory in the sense of exact reproduction of series of percepts previously formed.
Already, then, we shall be nearer pure perception if we cease to consider anything but the perceptible stuff in which numerically distinct percepts are cut.
Concepts of the intangible and invisible are only learned through percepts of tangible and visible objects, whether finally expressed to the eye or to the ear, in terms of sight or of sound.
The carp[GN] that come to the sound of a bell must have, suggested by that sound, vague percepts of edible crumbs.
Hence it is that, at the bidding of a simple impression, percepts or constructs take origin and shape in the mind.
That some birds can associate arbitrary signs with theirpercepts will be admitted by all who have watched their habits.
Percepts are the elaborated products of this mental symbolism.
This kind of judgment, by which we affirm the existence of states of consciousness, discriminate qualities, distinguish percepts and form concepts, is called primitive or psychological judgment.
It is the conviction of this paper that in ethics, as in knowledge, thoughts without contents are empty; percepts without concepts are blind.
Thoughts without perceptsare empty, and what are the "percepts" in the two cases?
Philosophers are puzzled by this question because they confuse perceptswith concepts.
Percepts are given in relation; but concepts, being ideal dissections of the perceptual flux, are discontinuous terms which have to be related by an act of thought, because they were made for this very purpose of distinction.
Thus the image of a centaur is the result of combining the common percepts of man and horse: fairy tales and fiction generally are the result of this process of combination.
The term is technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception.
If the world were less than this, if the percept could not somehow become a concept, all progress would come to a standstill, and we should be no more than creatures of sensations and percepts which vanished as soon as they appeared.
He shows us, as will be elucidated later, that as sensations point in the direction of percepts, and percepts in the direction of concepts, so concepts point in the direction of something which is beyond themselves.
The animal is probably almost entirely the creature of its instincts and of the percepts which present themselves to it from moment to moment, and which largely disappear.
And yet it stands out in an originality as positive and distinct as do any of the unquestionable data or percepts of the soul's acknowledged specific faculties.
It cannot be described or expressed in the terms of the percepts or knowledge given by the other faculties of the soul, either general or special, either separately or in combination.
Dependent upon the percepts by the senses and the states of consciousness thus furnished comes the further capacity of "representative knowledge" in the forms of memory and the imagination.
It is plain that the illusoriness of a perception is in these cases determined in relation to the sense-impressions of other moments and situations, or to what are presumably better percepts than the present one.
Moreover, there are all the conditions present, both positive and negative, for the hallucinatory transformation of mental images into percepts just as in natural sleep.
That is to say, he asks whether the bodies in space assumed to exist by the physicist as the antecedent conditions of particular sensations and percepts are independent of mind and perception generally.
His quasi-percepts are wont to transform themselves into actions with a degree of force of which we see no traces in ordinary sleep.
By combining concepts with percepts, we can draw maps of the distribution of other percepts in distant space and time.
They are man's percepts and concepts; they are his facts, his environment.
These are the percepts which the ego presents to the Thinker's consciousness.
III So far, all seems plain sailing, but my thesis will probably grow less plausible to the reader when I pass from percepts to concepts, or from the case of things presented to that of things remote.
The viscera and cells are only possible percepts following upon that of the outer body.
Of course percepts may be involved in the mediating experiences, or in the 'satisfactoriness' of the P in its new position.
The percepts themselves may be shown to differ; but if each of us be asked to point out where his percept is, we point to an identical spot.
This actually happens in our dreams, and in our day-dreams so long aspercepts do not interrupt them.
The next thing beyond my percept is not your mind, but morepercepts of my own into which my first percept develops, the interior of the Hall, for instance, or the inner structure of its bricks and mortar.
And we believe this because the percepts of each one of us seem to be changed in consequence of changes in the percepts of someone else.
My idea of this pen verifies itself through my percept; and my percept is held to BE the pen for the time being-- percepts and physical realities being treated by common sense as identical.
Footnote: I need hardly remind the reader that both sense- percepts and percepts of ideal relation (comparisons, etc.
The treatment, [earlier], of percepts as the only realm of reality.
He is sure because in countless like cases he has seen such inadequate and symbolic thoughts, by developing themselves, terminate in percepts that practically modified and presumably resembled his own.
Seeing, then, that they are neither percepts nor concepts, and yet such highly important elements in ideation, I coin for them the distinctive name of recepts.
Just as recepts may be either memories of particular percepts, or the results of many percepts (i.
In order to form a concept, the mind must intentionally bring together its percepts (or the memories of them), for the purpose of binding them up as a bundle of similars, and labelling the bundle with a name.
Hence we see that between the region of percepts and those of concepts there lies a large intermediate territory, which is occupied by what I have called generic ideas, or recepts.
But so soon as we come to quasi-percepts which we believe to exist or to originate somewhere outside the percipient's mind, our difficulties come thick and fast.
My present point is that such synæsthesiæ stand on the dividing line between percepts externally and internally originated.
If it can get at phantasmal percepts outside the organism, may it not get at material percepts also?
It seems safer to term them entencephalic, on the analogy of entoptic, since they seem to be due to something in brain-structure, much as entoptic percepts are due to something in the structure of the eye.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "percepts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
