different between perception vs veridicality

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French perception, from Latin percepti? (“a receiving or collecting, perception, comprehension”), from perceptus (“perceived, observed”), perfect passive participle of percipi? (“I perceive, observe”); see perceive.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??s?p?(?)n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p??s?p?(?)n/

Noun

perception (countable and uncountable, plural perceptions)

1. The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
2. Conscious understanding of something.

   perception of time

3. Vision (ability)
4. Acuity
5. (cognition) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.

Synonyms

• ken

Related terms

• perceive
• percept
• perceptual

Derived terms

• petite perception

Translations

Further reading

• perception in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• perception in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• preception

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin percepti?, percepti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.s?p.sj??/

Noun

perception f (plural perceptions)

1. tax collection
2. perception (clarification of this definition is needed)

Derived terms

• petite perception (philosophy)

Related terms

• percevoir

References

• “perception” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Further reading

• perception on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

English

Etymology

veridical +? -ity

Noun

veridicality (countable and uncountable, plural veridicalities)

1. Truth.
2. (psychology, philosophy) The degree to which something, such as a knowledge structure, is veridical; the degree to which an experience, perception, or interpretation accurately represents reality.
   • 1996, Herbert A. Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd ed.:

     Symbol structures can, and commonly do, serve as internal representations (e.g. "mental images") of the environments to which the symbol system is seeking to adapt. They allow it to model that environment with greater or less veridicality and in greater or less detail, and consequently to reason about it.

References

• veridicality in the Dictionary of Cognitive Science from the University of Alberta.