perceptionalismn.
/pəˈsɛpʃn̩əlɪz(ə)m/, /pəˈsɛpʃn̩l̩ɪz(ə)m/, /pəˈsɛpʃənl̩ɪz(ə)m/, /pəˈsɛpʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /pərˈsɛpʃənlˌɪz(ə)m/, /pərˈsɛpʃnəˌlɪz(ə)m/ Philosophy. rare.
The doctrine that human perceptions are true perceptions of things as they are.
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perceptionalism1891
1891 E. J. Hamilton Modalist 5 The philosophy..has been named Perceptionalism... This philosophy prizes highly the Aristotelian doctrine of ‘common sense’, or ‘common perception’,..but differs from it in being a developed system.
1911 Philos. Rev. 20 527 The radical perceptionalism which he professes is more disconcerting.
1921 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 31 222 Working from the kind of emotional perceptionalism that is at the basis of the thinking of both authors, it is logical that the culmination of ethical creed should be comparable in each.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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