Definition of Perception

 

The 'how it is' to cognitive systems in the world. A means of distinguishing how things are from how a cognizer thinks they are.
<Discussion> <References> Chris Eliasmith

[B147] After asserting that "things in space and time are given only in so far as they are perceptions", Kant defines a perception as "a representation given by sensation". [B208] Again, he defines perception as "empirical consciousness, that is, a consciousness in which sensation is to be found". [B212] Appearances have both an extensive magnitude, "their intuition", and an intensive magnitude, defined as "their mere perception (sensation, and with it reality". [B235] The category of community (as well as those of substance and causality) must be employed in order for us to perceive something: "without community, each perception of an appearance in space is broken off from every other, and the chain of empirical representations, that is, experience would have to begin entirely anew...without the least connection with the preceding representation, and without standing to it in any relation of time". This suggests that perception is a synthesized representation, an appearance, and in particular is associated with the intensive magnitude of an appearance and with sensation. [A324] In the Postulates, Kant's criteria of reality is that an appearance "stand in [a certain appropriate] connection with perception", suggesting a coherence view of [the nature of] truth. [A374] Again (in the Paralogisms in A) Kant writes, "Perception exhibits the reality of something in space; and in the absence of perception no power of imagination can invent and produce that something. It is sensation, therefore, that indicates a reality in space or in time, according as it is related to the one or to the other mode of sensible intuition [i.e., outer and inner?]". Perception here is defined as "sensation...if referred to an object in general, though not as determining that object"; as "data" of experience prior to discursive judgment. (Objective perception is knowledge; perception as "objective" sensation of an object, as opposed to just a spontaneous itch in inner sense. Prior to synthesis, there is no perception, sensation, or experience. Perception is associated with space, sensation with qualia; cf. extensive and intensive magnitude.)

(n.)
The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
An idea; a notion.
  

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perception
\per*cep"tion\ (?), n. [l. perceptio: cf. f. perception. see perceive.]
1. 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.
2. (metaph.) 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. w. hamilton. matter hath no life nor perception, and is not conscious of its own existence.
3. the quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility. [obs.] this experiment discovereth perception in plants.
4. an idea; a notion. [obs.] m. hale.
note: "the word perception is, in the language of philosophers previous to reid, used in a very extensive signification. by descartes, malebranche, locke, leibnitz, and others, it is employed in a sense almost as unexclusive as consciousness, in its widest signification. by reid this word was limited to our faculty acquisitive of knowledge, and to that branch of this faculty whereby, through the senses, we obtain a knowledge of the external world. but his limitation did not stop here. in the act of external perception he distinguished two elements, to which he gave the names of perception and sensation. he ought perhaps to have called these perception proper and sensation proper, when employed in his special meaning." w. hamilton.

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Knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world.

Arganfod = n. perception; v. to perceive, to fascinate

Cywydd = n. a kind of metre; perception; conscience

Darweliad = n. perception

Diffur = a. without perception

Dinawdd = a. without perception

Llemwst = n. sharp perception

Seliad = n. an espying; perception

Seliant = n. a perception

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Noun
1. the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept
(synonym) percept, perceptual experience
(hypernym) representation, mental representation, internal representation
(hyponym) figure
(part-meronym) form, shape, pattern
2. a way of conceiving something; "Luther had a new perception of the Bible"
(hypernym) conceptualization, conceptualisation, conceptuality
3. the process of perceiving
(hypernym) basic cognitive process
(hyponym) constancy
(derivation) perceive
4. knowledge gained by perceiving; "a man admired for the depth of his perception"
(hypernym) cognition, knowledge, noesis
(hyponym) discernment, perceptiveness
5. becoming aware of something via the senses
(synonym) sensing
(hypernym) sensory activity
(hyponym) look, looking, looking at
(derivation) perceive, comprehend

the way in which an individual interprets stimuli received by the senses.

Alternatively, (1) an observer's awareness or appreciation of objects, processes or situations in his environment mediated through his sensory organs, and (2) an observer's descriptions, hypotheses or constructs of the world of which he becomes thereby a part. (Krippendorff )

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pakashogaya

process of knowing or being aware of information through the ear.