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blicket
blicket
English
Noun
blicket (plural blickets)
- (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).
- 2007 September 1, Daniel A. Weiskopf, “The origins of concepts”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 3, DOI::
- 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.
- 2012, Issues in Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Research and Practice (page 1627)
- 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 […]
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