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NYAYA THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
character of simple ideas of sensation and reflection lies, not in their dependence on any sense organ, or any special kind of physiological stimulus, but in their immediate presence to consciousness. Hence while admitting that apprehension, in the sense of sensation or perception, is conditioned by both the sense organ and its stimulation, We defines it as the knowledge of what is immediately present to consciousness.)
1 Hobhouse, The Theory of Knowledge, Pt 1, Ch I Dr Stebbing seems to endorse the definition of percepti nas immediate knowledge when she observes that in perceptual judgments we merely record wliat we take to be directly gwen Vide op cit. p 13
