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Definition of Perception

Perception The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition. The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception. The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility. An idea; a notion. Related Definitions: Act, Affected, An, Being, Bodily, By, Capability, Cognition, Cognizance, Conception, Constitution, Discernment, Distinguished, External, Faculty, From, He, Has, Idea, Instrumentality, Intellect, Is, Knowledge, Man, Material, Medium, Mind, Notion, Of, Or, Part, Peculiar, Perceiving, Presented, Qualities, Quality, Sensation, Sensibility, Something, State, The, Them, Through, To, What, Which

Perception Quotations The perception of beauty is a moral test. Henry David Thoreau The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either. James J. Gibson There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. Aldous Huxley Science is nothing but perception. Plato If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake

Perception Translations perception in French is perception perception in German is Wahrnehmung

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