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blicket

blicket noun: 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 and plays music).

Noun

blicket (plural blickets)

  1. 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 and plays music).
    • 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.2007 September 1, Daniel A. Weiskopf, “The origins of concepts”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 3, →DOI
    • 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 […]2012, Issues in Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Research and Practice, page 1627

Forms of blicket

pluralblickets

Origin of blicket

Introduced by Nancy Soja in her 1987 dissertation "Ontological Constraints on 2-Year-Olds' Induction of Word Meanings" from MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. The word was used after Soja by a variety of cognitive scientists, and has gained usage since 2000 in publications by David Sobel and Alison Gopnik of the Psychology Department of UC Berkeley.

Questions about blicket

What does blicket mean?
Blicket means 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 and plays music).
What part of speech is blicket?
Blicket is a noun.
What is the plural of blicket?
The plural of blicket is blickets.

Words near blicket in the dictionary

  1. Blickenstaffs
  2. blicker
  3. blickered
  4. blickering
  5. blickers
  6. blicket
  7. blickets
  8. blickey
  9. blickeys
  10. blickies
  11. blicking

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