Thesaurus / percipient

percipient

How to use percipient in a sentence

Percipient, per-sip′i-ent, adj. perceiving: having the faculty of perception.

Because, he says, to exist is to be perceived, and therefore for the universe to exist implies a universal Percipient.

In these experiments with objects, the percipient was blindfolded and the object moreover was kept out of range of vision.

Hallucination decided upon before going to sleep was produced—the percipient awake and in normal condition.

Both agent and percipient awake and normal—hallucination produced at a distance of four hundred miles.

Accordingly there is no unique factor in nature which for every percipient is pre-eminently and necessarily the present.

THE CONCEPT OF NATUREALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD

This percipient event is roughly speaking the bodily life of the incarnate mind.

THE CONCEPT OF NATUREALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD

This peculiar relation is the relation of cogredience between the percipient event and the duration.

THE CONCEPT OF NATUREALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD

What I now want to discuss is the special relation of the percipient event which is ‘here’ to the duration which is ‘now.’

THE CONCEPT OF NATUREALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD

Within the short present duration the ‘here’ of the percipient event has a definite meaning of some sort.

THE CONCEPT OF NATUREALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985