sense datum (redirected from Sense data)

sense datum

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A basic unanalyzable sensation, such as a color or smell, experienced upon stimulation of a sense organ or receptor.

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sense datum

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(Psychology) 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 [1] apriorism

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sense datum - an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation; "a sensation of touch" aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense experience, sense impression perception - the process of perceiving limen, threshold - the smallest detectable sensation masking - the blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation; "he studied auditory masking by pure tones" visual sensation, vision - the perceptual experience of seeing; "the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual sensation of intense light" odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, smell, odor - the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form; "she loved the smell of roses" gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste, taste perception, taste sensation - the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus; "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste" auditory sensation, sound - the subjective sensation of hearing something; "he strained to hear the faint sounds" synaesthesia, synesthesia - a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated