Does the mental process of assigning subjective qualities to any phenomenon have a name in the suttas?
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According to the Khajjaniya Sutta, sañña is perception "because it perceives yellow... blue... red... white". So, it seems that it allows the mind to give a concept or label to whatever it's contacting and feeling.
Is perception giving a concept or label? Or is it more primitively discerning differences between shapes, colors, contrast, etc?
In between those perceived features, one may find even subjective labels, such as "good", "bad", "better", "worst", "beautiful", "ugly", etc.
These labels are definitely not perception. They are sankhara or themes (nimitta). The suttas say:
Avoid the sign/theme (nimitta) of the beautiful connected with passion
Sn 2.11
Passion is a making of themes. Aversion is a making of themes. Delusion is a making of themes.
MN 43
The nature of such concepts is that their criterion for definition is not at face value, but defined by every individual person.
Yes & no. For example, all arahants will view good & bad the same.
Those labels are ambiguous until specified by the speaker. But despite their subjective nature
They are often but not always subjective. Suffering is the same for everyone thus it is "bad" for everyone.
Understood under this perspective, subjective qualities may fall under the definition of perception (at least as understood in modern psychology).
I would focus on 'sankhara' as subjective (rather than perception).
For example, unless a person is colorblind, "blue", "green", "yellow", "white", "red", etc, is the same for everyone. The quote itself from the Khajjaniya Sutta appears to show that perception is not "subjective" because colours are not subjective.
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I think this is what you call Sankara. This is a very complex word with different meaning but you can learn about this in Abhidhamma.
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Saṅkhārā is a collective term for the other fifty cetasikas. These fall into four groups: 1) Universal mental factors (sabba citta sādhāranā). 2) Particular mental factors (pakiṇṇakā). 3) Unwholesome mental factors (akusalā). 4) Beautiful mental factors (sobhanā).
http://103.242.110.22/theravadins/English-articles/abhidhamma-in-practice.pdf
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