The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
Perception is reality.
There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.
That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.
However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.