A cognitive process is a process devoted to acquiring knowledge.
The cognitive functions of consciousness are directed towards providing awareness of identities.
Not all phenomena of consciousness are cognitive (emotion, imagination).
Knowledge stems from sensory observation.
Rationalism is the idea that there exists innate knowledge. (Not 100% on this wording but I think it’s accurate?)
Perception is the base of all knowledge.
Concepts are formed from perception by an objective process.

Perception as axiomatic

Sensory perception is the primary form of awareness of the world.
An organism born without sense organs would not be conscious.
That the senses provide awareness of reality is axiomatic.
Sensory awareness a result of the axiom of consciousness. That awareness is—that it perceives reality—is axiomatic.
Re-affirmation through denial: deny the senses one must use concepts, however, without the senses there would be no concepts. Self refuting.

Perception vs. sensation

A sensation is the most primitive form of conscious response.
A sensation is a conscious response to stimulation at the receptors.
It is stimulus bound.
Perception is awareness of entities.
Perception is spatial (it presents entities in relative positions).
Entities are not perceived in isolation, but discriminated from one another within the world.
Perception is differentiated from sensation in that it provides the co-presence of the entire scene of entities.
“Visual space, unlike abstract geometrical space, is perceived only by virtue of what fills it.”
Perception is relative to the position of the perceiver.
The sense of ones current place is acquired through ones movement within the world, as it changes the vantage point allowing for differentiation.
Perception is an active process, an awareness of entities in the world achieved by self-moving animals.
An animal needs self-produced motion to develop perception.
Perception is the continuous awareness of entities in their relative positions gained from actively acquired sensory inputs.