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Salience vs Sapience - What's the difference?

salience | sapience |

As nouns the difference between salience and sapience

is that salience is the condition of being salient while sapience is the property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.

salience

English

(wikipedia salience)

Noun

(-)
  • The condition of being salient.
  • A highlight; perceptual prominence, or likelihood of being noticed.
  • (social sciences, linguistics) Relative importance based on context.

    • sapience

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.
  • * 2009 , Robert Brandom, Reason in Philosophy: Animating Ideas
    • I then marked out three ways in which we can instead describe and demarcate ourselves in terms of the sapience that distinguishes us from the beasts of forest and field.
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