percept

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What these all have in common is that the individual percept seems to be highly subjective, ultimately influenced—if not determined—by the idiosyncratic life experience of the observer.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2017

It wasn't a memory it was a percept, though not one such as you would have.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2015

Each frame, each view, is a specific conscious percept.

From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2014

Instead, we experience what can be referred to as a seamless percept.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The shock of surprise, the incongruity with the formed percept, is the essence and measure of ugliness.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George