Percept
In the words of Ayn Rand, a percept “is a group of sensations automatically retained and integrated by the brain of a living organism, which gives it the ability to be aware, not of single stimuli, but of entities, of things.”1
BACKLINKS
- All Knowledge is Either Perceptual or Conceptual
- Conceptual Order
- Consciousness
- Different Forms of Sense Perception Lead to Different Capabilities in Deducing Laws
- Evasion
- Focus as Antecedent to Any Choice
- Mental Focus as Having Degrees
- Mental Focus
- Mysticism as Invalid
- Mystics of Spirit
- Objectivism does not Hold that Consciousness is an Entity
- Sense Perception
- Spiritual vs Material
- The Attack on the Senses from their Limitation
- The Characteristics of Entities
- The Epistemic Primacy of Sense Perception
- The Interrelation of Evasion and Drift
- The Objectivist Theory of Concept Formation as Valid
- The Role of the Senses
- The Secondary Choice Being The Choice to Think or Evade
- The Sensory-Perceptual Level as Automatic
- The Validation of Sense Perception