Blicket

Quick meaning: Blicket is a noun meaning (philosophy) A type of novel object with certain properties that may be categorized by a human in certain experiments relating to causality and perception, e.g., triggering a "blicket detector" (a device that lights up and plays music).

Meaning

(philosophy) A type of novel object with certain properties that may be categorized by a human in certain experiments relating to causality and perception, e.g., triggering a "blicket detector" (a device that lights up and plays music).

Example Sentences

So if the child now represents these instances as being blickets, she represents them as being more similar to each other than they seemed previously.

Later they were presented with the picture of a blicket along with the real object it depicted and asked to indicate the blicket. Many of the 24-, 18-, and even 15-month-olds indicated the real object as an instance of a blicket […]

Word Forms

• blickets

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blik, quale, proception, phenomenon, onlook, deadlight.

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