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Percipient   Listen
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Percipient  adj.  Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Percipient" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mohammedan tenets which make Mans soul his percipient Ego, an entity, a unity, the Soofi considers it a fancy, opposed to body, which is a fact; at most a state of things, not a thing; a consensus of faculties whereof our frames are but the phenomena. This is not contrary ...
— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton

... percipients, and the interpolation changes into 'extrapolation.' The sense-terminus of the remaining percipient is regarded by the philosopher as not quite reaching reality. He has only carried the procession of experiences, the philosopher thinks, to a definite, because practical, halting- place somewhere on the way towards an absolute truth that ...
— The Meaning of Truth • William James



Words linked to "Percipient" :   beholder, person, seer, visualizer, looker, informant, soul, someone, perceiver, perceive, attender, clear, discoverer, noticer, watcher, auditor, individual, listener, discerning, visualiser, audile, spotter, witnesser, viewer, observer, mortal, hearer, spectator, eyeglass wearer, somebody



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