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Perception, philosophy: perceptions are conscious or unconscious processings of changes of state or events in the environment or within a living organism. Perceptions are happening in the present. Memories and imaginations are not perceptions. In language usage the expression of perception is used both for the process of perception and for the perceived. See also stimuli, sensations, sense perceptions, computation, memory, ideas.


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Perception/Sellars: includes thoughts - but is not cognitive as such. - Clarity: needs something non-cognitive.
I 43
Perception/Sellars: might be explained by molecular behavior, but not by analyzing the speech behavior - and therefore not by sense data as an intermediate instance between being and appearance.
I 99:
Impression/Sellars: that there is something. - Thought: that something will appear. - Perception: as if there would be something.
I 103
Perception/Sellars: right question: what would correspond, for example, with electromagnetic concepts in a micro theory of sentient organisms - (not: how do impressions and electro mechanics fit together). - Not only behavior, also inner episodes - impressions need to be inter-subjective, not completely dissolvable symptoms in behavioral impressions: states. (But not physiological). - Impressions are not objects.
Graeser I 46
Perception/Sellars/Graeser: adverbial: he preceives reddish.


Sell I
W. Sellars
Der Empirismus und die Philosophie des Geistes Paderborn 1999

Grae I
A. Graeser
Positionen der Gegenwartsphilosophie. München 2002

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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2017-11-22