percept
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That which is perceived.
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The percept takes priority of the concept.
Ambiguous figures demonstrate that a single stimulus can result in more than one percept; for example the Rubin vase which can be interpreted either as a vase or as two faces.
After a time, the other percept will become dominant and an individual will become aware of the second percept.
The image on the right of a Necker cube is an example of a bistable percept, that is, the cube can be interpreted as being oriented in two different directions.
A picture of a talking person on a television screen, for example, is bound to the sound of speech from speakers to form a percept of a talking person.
He described proper names in the following terms: "A proper name, when one meets with it for the first time, is existentially connected with some percept or other equivalent individual knowledge of the individual it names.