percipient Meaning & Definition

  • En [ pəˈsɪp.i.ənt]
  • Us [ pɚˈsɪp.i.ənt]

Meaning of percipient In English

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  • The former, for example, might include the percipient's being in a state of child-like trust, whereas no such state is included in the latter.

  • In the past, some percipient person saw a danger or thought he saw a new danger.

  • More percipient journalists were able to detect the new atmosphere at the conference.

  • The distortion of straight lines into curves in the perceptual representation is not immediately apparent to the percipient because they are perceived to be straight.

  • Shepard believes that by removing the percipient from ordinary contact with stimulation we can show that kinematic geometry is internal.

  • This compression of the reference grid to match the compression of space would, in a mathematical system with infinite resolution, completely conceal the compression from the percipient.

  • They made some unusually percipient observations about the conflict of the duty of the advocate.

  • This seems to me both percipient and ominous, because this is only a start, drastic as it is.

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