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sense datum

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noun

Also called sensum. Psychology. the basic unit of an experience resulting from the stimulation of a sense organ; a stimulus or an object of perception or sensation.
Epistemology. datum(def 3).

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Nearby words

sensationalism, sensationalize, sensationism, sense, sense and sensibility, sense datum, sense of equilibrium, sense organ, sense perception, sense stress, senseful

Origin of sense datum

First recorded in 1920–25
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British Dictionary definitions for sense datum

sense datum

noun

philosophy a sensation detached both from any information it may convey and from its putative source in the external world, such as the bare awareness of a red visual field. Sense data are held by some philosophers to be the immediate objects of experience providing certain knowledge from which knowledge of material objects is inferredSee also representationalism (def. 1), apriorism
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Medicine definitions for sense datum

sense datum

n.

A basic, unanalyzable sensation, such as color, sound, or smell, experienced upon stimulation of a sense organ or receptor.
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