Perception

Definition of Perception

Per`cep´tion
n.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.
Matter hath no life nor perception, and is not conscious of its own existence.
- Bentley.
3.The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.
This experiment discovereth perception in plants.
- Bacon.
4.An idea; a notion.

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