blicketとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

blicket ‎(複数形 blickets)

1. (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 かつ plays music).
   • 2007 September 1, Daniel A. Weiskopf, “The origins of concepts”, Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 3, DOI:10.1007/s11098-007-9150-8:

     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 […]