Percipients

Word PERCIPIENTS
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What do we mean by percipients?

One who perceives something.

One who has perceived a paranormal event.

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The word "percipients" in example sentences

Its cod-academic talk about "percipients" and human beings as "pattern-seeking creatures" exists solely to soften us up for the thrills to come. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The patterns of display, behavior, location, percipients, appearance, etc., may be even more important in revealing new, real data than differing lists of the top ten cases. ❋ Mac (2007)

The overall patterns of display over time of the best cases need to be more deeply and scientifically studied, as do the percipients and the effects upon them and others who they communicate their experiences to, from a cultural and sociological perspective. ❋ Mac (2007)

About 250 people took part in the study as percipients; together they produced 2,200 drawings. ❋ DEAN RADIN (2006)

Considerations about the causal theory of perception persuade him to place the percept into the percipients brain. ❋ Stubenberg, Leopold (2005)

Thus the red apple percept finally finds a physical home, viz., the physical entity in the percipients brain which it helps to constitute (proximally). ❋ Stubenberg, Leopold (2005)

Rather than arguing that things convey their reality to percipients which would imply that we recognize as real only those things possessed of "whatness", James argues that the sense of reality is a constituent part of the percipient's experience that may in fact be independent of the object of that experience. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Obviously, if the sympathetic relationship depends upon the fact that percipients and things perceived are all members of one living being, no acts of perception could take place: that far body could be known only if it were a member of this living universe of ours — which condition being met, it certainly would be. ❋ Plotinus (1952)

Still; we perceive by means of the perceptive faculty and are, ourselves, the percipients: may we not say the same of the intellective act? ❋ Plotinus (1952)

It reproduces the common universe of which we are portions and percipients, and it purges from our inward sight the film of familiarity which obscures from us the wonder of our being. ❋ Various (N/A)

In addition to the private spaces belonging to the private worlds of different percipients, there is, however, another space, in which one whole private world counts as a point, or at least as a spatial unit. ❋ Bertrand Russell (1921)

Abolish, now, one of the percipients, and the interpolation changes into 'extrapolation.' ❋ William James (1876)

There have generally been means of accounting for the impression on the senses or minds of the alleged percipients, by fallacious appearances; or some epidemic delusion, propagated by the contagious influence of popular feeling, has been concerned in the case; or some strong interest has been implicated — religious zeal, party feeling, vanity, or at least the passion for the marvelous, in persons strongly susceptible of it. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

Only the sightings over Mexico City in the mid 1990s exceed it in terms of the total number of percipients. ❋ Frank Warren (2010)

Jacques Vallee, author of The Invisible College cautions that we should consider psychic effects, such as space-time distortions experienced by percipients of craft-like devices which appear to fade away - dematerialize - and then reappear; of alien, strange voices or thoughts that may effect involuntary changes in the manner in which witnesses may react in such circumstances. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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