perception

Japanese: perception
perception

…In ancient Japan, the word “perception” meant “to know, to understand”; however, Nishi Amane used it as a translation of “perception” in his Japanese translation of the American Joseph Haven’s book “Mental Philosophy” (1857, 2nd edition 1869), “Psychology” (volumes 1 and 2) (1875-79), and since then, it has been used in philosophy and psychology as a translation of the English and French words “perception” and the German word “Wahrnehmung”. The word “perception” is made up of the prefix “per”, which means “completely” or “thoroughly”, and the Latin word “capere”, which means “to grasp” (the German word “Wahrnehmung” is made up of “wahr”, which means “attention” (remains in the English word “aware”), and “nehmen”, which means “to take, understand”), and usually means “to be aware of” or “to understand” through the five senses. …

*Some terminology explanations that mention "perception" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…〈知覚〉は,日本では古来,〈知り,さとる〉という意味の語であったが,西周が,アメリカ人ヘーブンJoseph Havenの著《Mental Philosophy》(1857,第2版1869)の邦訳《心理学》上・下巻(1875‐79)の中で,perceptionの訳語として使用して以来,哲学や心理学などで英語,フランス語のperceptionやドイツ語のWahrnehmungの訳語として定着するに至った。perceptionという語は,〈完全に〉〈すっかり〉などの意を示す接頭辞perと,〈つかむ〉を意味するラテン語capereとからなる語であり(ドイツのWahrnehmungは,〈注意〉の意を有するwahr――英語のawareなどに残っている――と,〈取る,解する〉を意味するnehmenとからなっている),たいていは五感によって〈気づく〉〈わかる〉ことを意味する。…

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