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Six example sentences with percipient, each labelled with its topic.
In the lab's classic test the percipient sat behind a curtain and reported only what reached her ears.
Psychology
The novel's narrator is a patient percipient, cataloging smells and street noise while other characters argue past each other.
Literature
Every experiment on flavor needs a trained percipient who can name what a compound registers on the tongue.
Science
Berkeley argued that a tree exists only as an idea in some percipient, so an unobserved forest is a puzzle.
Philosophy
The court preferred the account of a percipient who had watched the collision from the corner over any later reconstruction.
Law
The installation treats each visitor as a percipient, changing its lights according to where in the room she stands.
Art
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