Perceptual Fact

Keyword: Perceptual Fact


Dictionary Entry | Posted 21/07/2015
Quote from "Chapter II. Prelogical Notions. Section I. Classification of the Sciences"

It is essential, at the very threshold of logic, to distinguish between a percept, which is what the senses perceive, and which is an object of study for the intellect, and...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 20/07/2015
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter II. Section II. Why Study Logic? "

In place of the percept, which, although not the first impression of sense, is a construction with which my will has had nothing to do, and may, therefore, properly be called the “...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 20/07/2015
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise"

The real thinking-process presumably begins at the very percepts. But a percept cannot be represented in words, and consequently, the first part of the thinking cannot be represented by any...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 19/07/2015
Quote from "On the Logic of Drawing History from Ancient Documents Especially from Testimonies (Logic of History)"

…logical criticism cannot go behind perceptual facts, which are the first judgments which we make concerning percepts. A perceptual fact is therefore an...