Dear Tim

Thank you for your posting of OED definitions of the term 'percept'.

I agree with the following quote:

"In any act of perception the matter that is percept or object is
commonly outside the organism of the percipient." 1964 M. CRITCHLEY"

If you have time, please kindly also consult a dictionary of
science / technology / psychology by any publisher for the
definition of the term 'percept'.

It would be nice to know how the scientific communities around the
world understand and use the term 'percept'.

It is my opinion that how the term 'percept' is used by the
speculative ideologists like Stephen Hodge is very limited and
personal and outside the common understanding. Even idiosyncratic!

Thanking you in avance.

Suan Lu Zaw



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wrote:

Hi,

Benefiting from the exchanges: thank you.

The refs for 'percept' in the OED are as follows.

1. The object of PERCEPTION: 1837 SIR W. HAMILTON Logic iii. (1866)
I. 42 W=
hether it
might not..be proper to introduce the term percept for the object of
percep=
tion. 1880
SIDGWICK in 19th Cent. VII. 355 In any act of perception the matter
that is=
percept or
object is commonly outside the organism of the percipient. 1964 M.
CRITCHLE=
Y
Developmental Dyslexia xiii. 78 Not only is it a matter of defective
percep=
tion, but it is
also one of inadequate association of lexical percepts. Ibid., This
process=
of linking one
percept with another is where the principal fault may lie. 1973
Nature 6 Ju=
ly 54/2 The
Necker cube has been viewed as an ambiguous figure whose
configuration and =

accompanying instructions usually limit the number of percepts to
two. 1974=
Sci. Amer.
Jan. 126/3 No one else smelled it [sc. poison gas], she was assured.
Her en=
emy was so
ingenious, she retorted, that his gas was odorless! Her experience
was thus=
no percept at
all, but a projection from internal ideas. 1976 SMYTHIES & CORBETT
Psychiat=
ry v. 55 This
man had a normal percept but attached a special, personal meaning to
it whi=
ch was quite
false.

 2. The mental product or result of perceiving as distinguished
from the a=
ction: 1876 H.
MAUDSLEY Physiol. Mind v. 273 A percept is the abstract of
sensations, so a=
concept is the
abstract of percepts. 1883 Chamb. Jrnl. 82 Has the mental percept
been evok=
ed without
any antecedent sense-percept? 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 399
Word-image=
s as integral
components of percepts and concepts. 1949 Mind LVIII. 450 William
James som=
etimes
used the word ‘percept’ to refer to the content of consciousness
during=
perception; it is
this fact which has made the name ‘Percept Theory’ seem to me
appropria=
te for the
particular theory of perceptual consciousness which he himself
supported. 1=
970 Jrnl. Gen.
Psychol. LXXXIII. 66 Sex responses are numerous... The number of
human perc=
epts is low.
1972 Sci. Amer. Sept. 47/2 It is along this pathway that the visual
image f=
ormed on the
retina by light rays entering the eye is transformed into a visual
percept,=
on the basis of
which appropriate commands to the muscles are issued. 1976 Word 1971
XXVII.=
226 Each
physical stimulus, after interpretation by the mental processes,
will resul=
t in a percept.


hth,

tl