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Perception vs Nonperception - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between perception and nonperception

is that perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information while nonperception is absence of perception; not perceiving something.

perception

English

(wikipedia perception)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.
  • Conscious understanding of something.
  • Vision (ability )
  • Acuity
  • (cognition ) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * perceive * percept * perceptual

    External links

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    nonperception

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Absence of perception; not perceiving something.
  • * 2000 , Jitendranath Mohanty, Classical Indian philosophy?
    • To avoid this and similar problems, the Vedantins regard nonperception to be the means of cognizing an absence.