Percept

From Latin perceptum, neuter of perceptus ("perceived"), past participle of percipere ("to perceive"); see perceive.

Full definition of percept

(plural percepts)

(psychology, philosophy, now rare) Something perceived; the object of perception. from 19th c.

1860, William Hamilton, Lectures in Metaphysics, III.3:Whether it might not, in like manner, be proper to introduce the term percept for the object of perception, I shall not at present inquire.

(psychology, philosophy) A perceived object as it exists in the mind of someone perceiving it; the mental impression that is the result of perceiving something. from 19th c.

1901, Charles Sanders Peirce, Grammar of Science:I see an inkstand on the table: that is a percept. Moving my head, I get a different percept of the inkstand.
1905, William James, â€˜How Two Minds Can Know One Thingâ€™, Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods:So far as in that world it is a stable feature, holds ink, marks paper and obeys the guidance of a hand, it is a physical pen. ... So far as it is instable, on the contrary, coming and going with the movements of my eyes, altering with what I call my fancy, continuous with subsequent experiences of its â€˜having beenâ€™ (in the past tense), it is the percept of a pen in my mind.
1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy:Socrates remarks that when he is well he finds wine sweet, but when ill, sour. Here it is a change in the percipient that causes the change in the percept.