See percept on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1947, László Moholy-Nagy, translated by Daphne M. Hoffman, “The material (surface treatment, painting)”, in The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist (The Documents of Modern Art), New York, N.Y.; Scarsdale, N.Y.: George Wittenborn, →OCLC, “The New Vision” (4th revised edition) section, page 34:",
"text": "The lighter and darker shading of surfaces can be understood as a means for discrimination in percepting each viewpoint, and at the same time as spatial articulation — back, forward, oblique — of the pictorial space of the picture-plane.",
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"ref": "1950, Richard Eberhart, “A Legend of Viable Women”, in John Ciardi, editor, Mid-Century American Poets, New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, published January 1952 (2nd printing), →OCLC, canto II, page 231:",
"text": "There was a nun of modesty, who with service was heavy / And big with sweet acts all her sweet life long; / Enough wisdom she had for twenty ordinary women / Who percepted love as a breath, and as a song.",
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"ref": "2001 December 1, Jonathan Rigelsford, “Biomimetic Sensor Technology”, in Sensor Review: The International Journal of Sensing for Industry, volume 21, number 4, Bingley, West Yorkshire: Emerald Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 323:",
"text": "Chemo‐reception, biological membranes, and a discussion of how the reception of taste and odour substances are percepted in the brain, are addressed in Chapter 2.",
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