percipients

Noun

percipient (plural percipients)

1. One who perceives something.
   • As anatomy, physiology and, later, psychology have developed into more or less well-organized sciences, they have necessarily and rightly come to incorporate the study of, among other things, the structures, mechanisms, and functionings of animal and human bodies qua percipient.1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 99 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
2. One who has perceived a paranormal event.
   • In the course of investigating the haunting, I interviewed several percipients.

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