experience
sense datum:
1. Also called sensum. Psychology. the basic unit of an experience resulting from the stimulation of a sense organ; a stimulus or an object of perception or sensation.
2. Epistemology. datum (see below).
3. Philosophy. a sensation detached both from any information it may convey and from its putative source in the external world, such as the bare awareness of a red visual field. Sense data are held by some philosophers to be the immediate objects of experience providing certain knowledge from which knowledge of material objects is inferred.
See also representationalism and apriorism (below).
4. a basic, unanalyzable sensation, such as color, sound, or smell, experienced upon stimulation of a sense organ or receptor.
datum (in epistemology):
Also called sense datum. the object of knowledge as presented to the mind.
Compare ideatum.
representationalism:
1. Also called representative realism. Epistemology. the view that the objects of perception are ideas or sense data that represent external objects, especially the Lockean doctrine that the perceived idea represents exactly the primary qualities of the external object.
2. philosophy the doctrine that in perceptions of objects what is before the mind is not the object but a representation of it.
Compare presentationism, naive realism. See also barrier of ideas.
apriorism:
1. Philosophy. belief in, or reliance upon, a priori reasoning, arguments, or principles.
2. the philosophical doctrine that there may be genuine knowledge independent of experience. Compare rationalism and sensationalism (below).
rationalism (in philosophy):
1. the doctrine that knowledge about reality can be obtained by reason alone without recourse to experience.
2. the doctrine that human knowledge can all be encompassed within a single, usually deductive, system.
sensationalism (Also called: sensualism. philosophy):
1. the doctrine that knowledge cannot go beyond the analysis of experience.
2. Ethics. the doctrine that the ability to gratify the senses is the only criterion of goodness.
presentationism (in philosophy):
the theory that objects are identical with our perceptions of them.
Compare representationalism (above).
naive realism (in philosophy):
1. the theory that the world is perceived exactly as it is.
2. the doctrine that in perception of physical objects what is before the mind is the object itself and not a representation of it.
Compare representationalism (above).
barrier of ideas (in philosophy):
the representations of objects which certain accounts of perception interpose between the objects themselves and our awareness of them, so that, as critics argue, we can never know whether there is in reality anything which resembles our perceptions.
See representationalism (above).
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin experientia, equivalent to experient- (stem of experiēns, past participle of experīrī to try, test; see ex-1, peril) + -ia noun suffix; see -ence. Dictionary 2: C14: from Latin experientia, from experīrī to prove; related to Latin perīculum peril. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use: Noun: 14th century. Verb: 1580. History and Etymology: Noun: Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin experientia "testing of possibilities, participation in events, skill gained by practice," noun derivative of experient-, experiens, present participle of experīrī "to put to the test, attempt, have experience of, undergo," from ex- ex- entry 1 + -perīrī, from a presumed verbal base *per- "test, risk." —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
1. Also called sensum. Psychology. the basic unit of an experience resulting from the stimulation of a sense organ; a stimulus or an object of perception or sensation.
2. Epistemology. datum (see below).
3. Philosophy. a sensation detached both from any information it may convey and from its putative source in the external world, such as the bare awareness of a red visual field. Sense data are held by some philosophers to be the immediate objects of experience providing certain knowledge from which knowledge of material objects is inferred.
See also representationalism and apriorism (below).
4. a basic, unanalyzable sensation, such as color, sound, or smell, experienced upon stimulation of a sense organ or receptor.
datum (in epistemology):
Also called sense datum. the object of knowledge as presented to the mind.
Compare ideatum.
representationalism:
1. Also called representative realism. Epistemology. the view that the objects of perception are ideas or sense data that represent external objects, especially the Lockean doctrine that the perceived idea represents exactly the primary qualities of the external object.
2. philosophy the doctrine that in perceptions of objects what is before the mind is not the object but a representation of it.
Compare presentationism, naive realism. See also barrier of ideas.
apriorism:
1. Philosophy. belief in, or reliance upon, a priori reasoning, arguments, or principles.
2. the philosophical doctrine that there may be genuine knowledge independent of experience. Compare rationalism and sensationalism (below).
rationalism (in philosophy):
1. the doctrine that knowledge about reality can be obtained by reason alone without recourse to experience.
2. the doctrine that human knowledge can all be encompassed within a single, usually deductive, system.
sensationalism (Also called: sensualism. philosophy):
1. the doctrine that knowledge cannot go beyond the analysis of experience.
2. Ethics. the doctrine that the ability to gratify the senses is the only criterion of goodness.
presentationism (in philosophy):
the theory that objects are identical with our perceptions of them.
Compare representationalism (above).
naive realism (in philosophy):
1. the theory that the world is perceived exactly as it is.
2. the doctrine that in perception of physical objects what is before the mind is the object itself and not a representation of it.
Compare representationalism (above).
barrier of ideas (in philosophy):
the representations of objects which certain accounts of perception interpose between the objects themselves and our awareness of them, so that, as critics argue, we can never know whether there is in reality anything which resembles our perceptions.
See representationalism (above).
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin experientia, equivalent to experient- (stem of experiēns, past participle of experīrī to try, test; see ex-1, peril) + -ia noun suffix; see -ence. Dictionary 2: C14: from Latin experientia, from experīrī to prove; related to Latin perīculum peril. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use: Noun: 14th century. Verb: 1580. History and Etymology: Noun: Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin experientia "testing of possibilities, participation in events, skill gained by practice," noun derivative of experient-, experiens, present participle of experīrī "to put to the test, attempt, have experience of, undergo," from ex- ex- entry 1 + -perīrī, from a presumed verbal base *per- "test, risk." —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.