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Perception vs Representationalism - What's the difference?

perception | representationalism |

As nouns the difference between perception and representationalism

is that perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information while representationalism is the belief that the conscious perception of the world is actually an internal replica of the world of the mind of the beholder.

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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    representationalism

    English

    Noun

  • (philosophy) The belief that the conscious perception of the world is actually an internal replica of the world of the mind of the beholder.
  • (arts) Realistic representation of the world in art.

    • Synonyms

    (philosophy) * internal perception * indirect realism * epistemological dualism (art) * realism