Perceptual Judgment

Keyword: Perceptual Judgment


Article in Journal | Posted 13/03/2017
Nesher, Dan (2002). Peirce's Essential Discovery: "Our Senses as Reasoning Machines" Can Quasi-Prove Our Perceptual Judgments
Focuses on Charles Peirce's theory of interpretation of the perceptual signs. Explanations for knowledge of reality; Evolution of cognition; Structure of perceptual judgments; Relations between...
Article in Journal | Posted 29/12/2015
Bergman, Mats (2007). Representationism and Presentationism
This article examines the semiotic philosophy of Charles S. Peirce in relation to his characterizations of representationism and presentationism.
Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/10/2015
Quote from "Notes on Portions of Hume's "Treatise on Human Nature""

…I note a great difference between a “percept” and a “perceptual judgment”. The latter is a mental description of a percept, in language or other symbols. [—] But...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 19/07/2015
Quote from "Telepathy"

I promised to show that a perceptual judgment is entirely unlike a percept. If it be true, as my analysis makes it to be, that a percept contains only two kinds of elements, those of firstness and...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 19/07/2015
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture VI"

It is a characteristic of perceptual judgments that each of them relates to some singular to which no other proposition relates directly, but, if it relates to it at all, [it] does so by relating...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 19/07/2015
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture IV. The Seven Systems of Metaphysics"

Even after the percept is formed there is an operation which seems to me to be quite uncontrollable. It is that of judging what it is that the person perceives. A judgment is an act of formation...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 19/07/2015
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture II"

By a perceptual judgment, I mean a judgment asserting in propositional form what a character of a percept directly present to the mind is.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 19/07/2015
Quote from "Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism"

A fact of Immediate Perception is not a Percept, nor any part of a Percept; a Percept is a Seme, while a fact of Immediate Perception or rather the Perceptual Judgment of...

Article in Journal | Posted 30/10/2014
Wilson, Aaron (2012). The Perception of Generals
The article presents an interpretation of the American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce's philosophy regarding the perception of generals, which are also referred to as Thirds. An overview of...
Encyclopedia Article | Posted 06/05/2013
Rosenthal, Sandra: "The Percipuum and the Issue of Foundations"

A good deal of attention is beginning to be focused on Peirce’s understanding of perceptual judgments and the issue of foundations, and ultimately the nature of the percipuum is central to this...