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percept

[pur-sept] / ˈpɜr sɛpt /


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The stage is the central workspace of the mind, with a small working memory capacity for representing a single percept, thought or memory.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023

What these all have in common is that the individual percept seems to be highly subjective, ultimately influenced—if not determined—by the idiosyncratic life experience of the observer.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2017

It wasn't a memory it was a percept, though not one such as you would have.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2015

Instead, we experience what can be referred to as a seamless percept.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

That percept was what I meant, for into it my idea has passed by conjunctive experiences of sameness and fulfilled intention.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James


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