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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 952 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RECEPT (from See also:Lat. recipere, to take back)  , a philosophical See also:term, used by See also:Romanes (See also:Mental See also:Evolution of See also:Man, ii . 36, 37), on the See also:analogy of " concept and percept," for mental images assumed to be produced by the See also:simple repetition of percepts . The See also:process is supposed to be the See also: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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