perception

[Fr., from Lat. perceptionem, acc us. of perceptio =a perceiving; from percept us, pa. par. of percipio =to perceive (q. v.); Sp. percep cion; Ital. percezione.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The act of perceiving, apprehending, or receiving impre ions by the senses, or from some sensible effects; perceptivity. "The auditory perception of the report."- Airy: On Sound, p. 135. 2. That which is perceived; a notion, an idea. "By the inventors, and their followers that would seem not to come too short of the perceptions of the leaders, they are magnified."- Hale : Orig. of Mankind. 3. The state of being affected by, or of receiving impre ions from something; the capacity of responding to some stimulus; sensation. his limitation did not stop here. In of external perception, he distinguished two elements, to which he gave the name of Perception and Sensation. He ought, perhaps, to have called these Perception proper and Sen sation proper, when employed in his special meaning; for, in the language of other philosophers, Sensation was a term which included his Perception , and Perception a term which included his Sensation." - Hamilton : Meta physics (ed. Mansel), ii. 93. (1) External perception : [PERCEPTION, II.] (2) Internal perception : [PRESENTATIVE-FACULTY, SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS.]