Perception vs Veridicality - What's the difference?
perception | veridicality |
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.
Truth.
(psychology, philosophy) The degree to which something, such as a knowledge structure, is veridical; the degree to which an experience, perception, or interpretation accurately represents reality.
*1996 , , The Sciences of the Artificial , 3rd ed.:
*:Symbol structures can, and commonly do, serve as internal representations (e.g. "mental images") of the environments to which the symbol system is seeking to adapt. They allow it to model that environment with greater or less veridicality and in greater or less detail, and consequently to reason about it.
As nouns the difference between perception and veridicality
is that perception is organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information while veridicality is truth.perception
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(wikipedia perception)Noun
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* * ----veridicality
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(veridicalities)References
*veridicalityin the Dictionary of Cognitive Science from the University of Alberta.