Literary notes about Percipient (AI summary)
In literary and philosophical texts, the term "percipient" is often employed to denote the receiving side of perception—the observer who actively or passively experiences, processes, and sometimes even transforms the qualities of objects into sensory or intellectual reality. It is used to highlight the unique role of the subject as an entity through which aesthetics are felt, ideas are realized, and phenomena are authenticated [1, 2]. Some works discuss the percipient in experimental or metaphysical contexts, where it stands as a central agent in the relationship between mind and matter, underscoring the notion that reality is not merely an external abstraction but one that becomes vivid only when apprehended by a living, experiencing subject [3, 4, 5].
- Again, if an Object be sweet, it must be sweet to some percipient Subject: sweet, but sweet to no one, is impossible.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 3 by George Grote - An element in the percipient repeats the total movement and tendency of the person perceived.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - If Goodness then implies the love of itself, the percipient will always have its object present, and pleasure continually result.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle - Mind and its “ideas” are, on the contrary, related as percipient to perceived—in whatever “otherness” that altogether sui generis relation implies.
— from The Works of George Berkeley. Vol. 1 of 4: Philosophical Works, 1705-21 by George Berkeley - In other words, active percipient Spirit is at the root of all intelligible trustworthy experience.
— from The Works of George Berkeley. Vol. 1 of 4: Philosophical Works, 1705-21 by George Berkeley
