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- noun philosophy An
object with certainproperties causing it to trigger a "blicket detector" (a device that lights up and plays music), introduced in certainexperiments relating tocausality andperception .
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Introduced by David Sobel and Alison Gopnik of the Psychology Department of UC Berkeley.
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drosselmeier commented on the word blicket
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_word
May 7, 2011