Matter and physical science is relative, so far that we may suppose in other percipients than men, an indefinite number of additional senses, affording corresponding varieties of qualities in things, of course inconceivable by man.
This is the germ of Berkeley's notion of the objectivity of the material world to individual percipients and so of the rise of individual self-consciousness.
The percipients were two young ladies in Mr. Guthrie's employ.
Most of the other percipients speak of a feeling of cold wind, but I myself have not experienced this.
I should mention that it has been seen through window glass, and that I myself wear glasses habitually, though none of the otherpercipients do so.
And, accordingly, whenever there can be shown in our percipients a diseased mental or psychical state, we must eliminate their testimony without argument.
The common Egyptian spellings are afreet, in the singular, and afaareet in the plural, for spiritual beings, who are usually described by percipients as of pygmy stature, but as being able to assume various sizes and shapes.
But since we have endeavoured to present no testimony from Celtic percipients who are not physically and psychically normal, the Pathological Theory at best can affect the x-quantity merely hypothetically.
Again, 'Hallucinations of the most impressive class will not only be better remembered than others, but will, we may reasonably suppose, be more often mentioned by the percipientsto their friends.
However the case is not very good, the twopercipients fancying that the date of the event was less remote than it really was.
On the hypothesis of believers, the percipients somehow behold 'Such refraction of events As often rises ere they rise.
It is observable that percipients in such cases sometimes describe their sensation as that of receiving an impression, or seeing a picture placed before them; sometimes as that of travelling and visiting the distant scene or person.
There are also two cases closely resembling each other, though from percipients in widely different parts of the world, where a clairvoyant vision seems to be presented of a tranquil death-chamber.
In the first place, the bulk of our percipients experience their hallucinations at ordinary unexciting moments; traversing their more anxious crises without any such phenomenon.
In the second place, those of our percipients whose hallucination is in fact more or less coincident with some distressing external event, seldom seem to have been predisposed to the hallucination by a knowledge of the event.
Important also in this connection are those apparitions of the double, where some one agent is seen repeatedly in phantasmal form by different percipients at times when that agent is undergoing no special crisis.
It is increasingly hard to refer all the scenes of which percipients become aware to the action of any given mind which is perceiving those distant scenes.
The figure is undoubtedly connected with the house, none of the percipients having seen it anywhere else, nor had any other hallucination.
There is nothing to show that any thought or emotion was passing from agent to percipients at the moment of the apparition.
One specially impressive characteristic of apparitions (as has been already remarked) is their occasional collectivity--the fact that more percipients than one sometimes see or hear the phantasmal figure or voice simultaneously.
Some of the hallucinations occurred immediately after waking, others while the percipients were awake in bed; but the great bulk occurred in a fully awakened state, and a large number appeared out of doors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "percipients" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
