Thanks for saving wear on my keyboard -- I was just going to type out these
definitions.
To correlate these definitions with he way I understand some of the terms
being discussed, I make the following connections:
1. OBJECT = vastu / vatthu and sometimes dharma / dhamma
a. A material thing that can be seen and touched
b. A thing which is perceived, thought of, known, etc; a thing which is
external to or distinct from the apprehending mind, subject, or self.
That is, in Buddhist terms, the bare object or thing that presents itself to
the senses
2. PERCEPT = primarily nimitta but sometimes aakaara or aala.mbana (the
problem here is that Buddhist theories of percepual / conceptual processes
do not perfectly overlap with current Western ones)
a. The mental product or result of perceiving as distinguished from the
action.
3. SIGN
None of the definitions seem relevent to discriptions of perceptual /
conceptual processes.