Perception vs. Interpretation

Perceptionnoun

Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.

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Conscious understanding of something.

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Vision (ability)

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Acuity

Perceptionnoun

(cognition) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.

Perceptionnoun

The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.

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The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; - distinguished from conception.

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The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.

Perceptionnoun

An idea; a notion.

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the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept

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a way of conceiving something;

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the process of perceiving

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knowledge gained by perceiving;

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becoming aware of something via the senses

Perception

Perception (from the Latin perceptio, meaning gathering or receiving) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system, which in turn result from physical or chemical stimulation of the sensory system. For example, vision involves light striking the retina of the eye; smell is mediated by odor molecules; and hearing involves pressure waves.

Interpretationnoun

(countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.

Interpretationnoun

(countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning .

Interpretationnoun

The discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another (as opposed to translation, which concerns itself with written language).

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(uncountable) The power of explaining.

Interpretationnoun

(countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.

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(countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.

Interpretationnoun

An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.

Interpretationnoun

An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.

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the practice and discipline of explaining natural and cultural heritage to visitors at museums, historic sites, zoos, aquaria, science centres, art galleries, etc. Also called heritage interpretation, mediation, guiding, etc.

Interpretationnoun

The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.

Interpretationnoun

The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.

Interpretationnoun

The power or explaining.

Interpretationnoun

An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.

Interpretationnoun

The act or process of applying general principles or formulæ to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.

Interpretationnoun

a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something

Interpretationnoun

the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance;

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an explanation that results from interpreting something;

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an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious;