phaneron

English

Noun

phaneron (plural phanerons)

  1. (philosophy) That which is perceived by the mind, regardless of whether it corresponds to reality.
    • 2013, Vsauce, "Is Anything Real?," 7:39-7:54:
      This mattered so much to Charles Sanders Pierce that he drew a line between reality — the way the universe truly is — and what he called "the phaneron" — the world as filtered through our senses and bodies, the only information we can get.
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