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Perception, philosophy: perceptions are conscious or unconscious processings of changes of state or events in the environment or within a living organism. Perceptions are happening in the present. Memories and imaginations are not perceptions. In language usage the expression of perception is used both for the process of perception and for the perceived. See also stimuli, sensations, sense perceptions, computation, memory, ideas.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Peter Gärdenfors on Perception - Dictionary of Arguments

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Perception/Prototypes/Categories/Vagueness/Gärdenfors: There is a cognitive mechanism for phenomena related to categorial perception (see Harnad, 1987(1), 2005(2), Petitot, 1989(3)). For example, we hear sounds that are somewhat unclean intoned, more correct than they really are.
Categorical perception: assigns stimulus to categories. >Categorical perception/Psychological theories.


1. Harnad, S. (1987). category induction and representation. In S. Harnad (ed.) categorical perception (pp. 535-565) cambridg: Cambridge University Press.
2. Harnad, S. (2005). To cognize is to categorize: Cognition is categorisation. In C. Lefebvre & H. Cohen (eds.), Handbook of categorization in cognitive science (pp. 20-42). New York: Elsevier.
3. Petitot, J. (1989). Morphodynamics and the categorical perception of phonological units. Theoretical Lingustics, 15, 25-71.


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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

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P. Gärdenfors
The Geometry of Meaning Cambridge 2014


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