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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 952 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RECEPT (from
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Lat. recipere, to take back)
  , a philosophical
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term, used by Romanes (
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Mental
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Evolution of Man, ii . 36, 37), on the analogy of " concept and percept," for mental images assumed to be produced by the
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simple repetition of percepts . The
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process is supposed to be the gradual elimination of elements in which the percepts disagree, and the emphasizing of those in which they agree . Thus the final residuum is a unity in difference .

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