"blicket" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: blickets [plural]
Etymology: Introduced by Nancy Soja in her 1987 dissertation "Ontological Constraints on 2-Year-Olds' Induction of Word Meanings" from MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. The word was used after Soja by a variety of cognitive scientists, and has gained usage since 2000 in publications by David Sobel and Alison Gopnik of the Psychology Department of UC Berkeley. Head templates: {{en-noun}} blicket (plural blickets)
  1. (philosophy) A type of novel object with certain properties that may be categorized by a human in certain experiments relating to causality and perception, e.g., triggering a "blicket detector" (a device that lights up and plays music). Categories (topical): Philosophy
    Sense id: en-blicket-en-noun-y007AJ6F Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences

Verb [German]

Audio: De-blicket.ogg
Head templates: {{head|de|verb form}} blicket
  1. second-person plural subjunctive I of blicken Tags: form-of, plural, second-person, subjunctive-i Form of: blicken
    Sense id: en-blicket-de-verb-LKIqrPnv Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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