It is a factor of nature directly posited in sense-awareness.
The element of judgment comes in when we proceed to classify the particular perceptual object.

For example, we say, That is flannel, and we think of the properties of flannel and the uses of athletes' coats.
But that all takes place after we have got hold of the perceptual object.

Anticipatory judgments affect the perceptual object perceived by focussing and diverting attention.
The perceptual object is the outcome of the habit of experience.
Anything which conflicts with this habit hinders the sense-awareness of such an object.

A sense-object is not the product of the association of intellectual ideas; it is the product of the association of sense-objects in the same situation.

This outcome is not intellectual; it is an object of peculiar type with its own particular ingression into nature.
There are two kinds of perceptual objects, namely, 'delusive perceptual objects' and 'physical objects.' The situation of a delusive perceptual object is a passive condition in the ingression of that object into nature.