Perception
the reception of knowledge through the senses, and the faculty by which knowledge is so received and communication maintained between the great-grandson, HENRY, LORD PERCY, 1337. He was marshal of England at was created Earl of Northumberland in the coronation of Richard II., against whom, however, he took up arms, and succeeded in placing the crown on the subject and the external world. Percep- head of the Lancastrian aspirant, Henry tion differs from conception, in dealing IV. He took up arms against this king with things that have an actual, not also, but his forces were beaten at merely a possible existence; and from Shrewsbury (1403), where his son, consciousness, in that it is concerned with objects external to the mind of the It is, in brief, the taking cognizance of impressions received by the senses.