Meaning of precipient | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Commanding; directing; willing.
2. Perceiving or perceived; pertaining to or capable of observation or sensation.

Examples

“Identity, as applied to man, denotes strictly the same unchanged and unchangeable precipient unity, notwithstanding any diversity of modes or of relations as to time, place, or other objects, which it may have experienced.”

“Whilst the wholly external thing, or fact is, in the language of metaphysics, pure object, and the precipient or acting soul pure subject, the intervening links—that is, the modification of the organ of sense, or of conscious motion, that of the cerebral centres, and also (it is assumed) that of the precipient or acting soul itself—may be contemplated either as objective or subjective phenomena, according as they are viewed from without, analytically and as separate facts, or from within, in their natural sythesis, as necessary parts of a single whole.”

“The complete foothold of the mind in nature is represented by the pair of events, namely, the present duration which marks the 'when' of awareness and the percipient event which marks the 'where' of awareness and the 'how' of awareness.”

“But it is ineffective in respect of certain people who do not obey the precipient will.”

“Total embolism of the left artery; organic disease of the heart; retention of a small island of precipient retina; treatment by deep massage with slight improvement .”

“Against this, however, I have the precipient testimony of trained observers: Trooper Ranger , Officer Albrecht, Sgt. Prock, who observed these individuals .”

“Compensation for a percipient witness in such situations is governed by statute, as with any other nonexpert witness.”

“However, it can be developed if you find a precipient brain, that is, one specially tuned in to inner induction. Many were tested, I among them. Well, so I turned out to be an exceptional precipient.”

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