Seeing, doing, and knowing a philosophical theory of sense perception
Sensory systems are automatic sorting machines; they engage in a process of classification. Human vision sorts and orders external objects in terms of a specialized, proprietary scheme of categories -- colors, shapes, speeds and directions of movement, etc. This "Sensory Classification Thesis&q...
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Oxford,New York
Oxford University Press
2007
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Thư viện lưu trữ: | Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh |
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Tóm tắt: | Sensory systems are automatic sorting machines; they engage in a process of classification. Human vision sorts and orders external objects in terms of a specialized, proprietary scheme of categories -- colors, shapes, speeds and directions of movement, etc. This "Sensory Classification Thesis" implies that sensation is not a naturally caused image from which an organism must infer the state of the world beyond; it is more like an internal communication, a signal concerning the state of the world issued by a sensory system, in accordance with internal conventions, for the use of an organism's other systems. This is why sensory states are both easily understood and persuasive |
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Mô tả vật lý: | xxii, 362 p. ill. 24 cm |
số ISBN: | 0199204284 9780199204281 |