perception

Perception is a specific cognitive process — the mind's way of interpreting sensory data. In cognitive science taxonomy, perception IS a core cognitive function alongside attention, memory, and reasoning. Specific→general.

Enactive cognition conceives of perception not as passive reception but as active exploration — cognition arises through perceptual-motor coupling with the environment. Remove perception and enactive cognition loses its mechanism of world-coupling entirely.

Awe is a concept of profound emotional response to something perceived. Remove perception and the concept of awe ceases to operate — there can be no awe without the act of perceiving. This is a constitutive, present-tense dependency.

Aesthetic as a human-made concept requires perception to operate: aesthetic evaluation is the capacity to judge sensory experience, and without perception there is no sensory material to evaluate. Removal test: remove perception — aesthetic loses its entire domain of operation (sensory judgment) and ceases functioning as a concept. This is constitutive, not incidental: aesthetic is defined by its relation to perceptual experience.

Remove perception right now — cue stops OPERATING. A cue only functions when it can be detected and recognized; without perception, cues are invisible and inert. The removal test passes at the object level: cues need perception to work, not just to be said. Direction tested as DEPENDS_ON (present-tense removal test).

Affordances are environmental properties designed (by evolution or design) for the sake of informing perception - they make action possibilities visible and detectable. Law 8d: servant(affordance)->master(perception). An affordance exists to guide the perceiver.

Defamiliarization is designed and maintained for the sake of perception — it is a literary/artistic technique whose explicit purpose is to make the familiar seem strange so that perception is refreshed and heightened. Per Law 8d: servant(defamiliarization)→master(perception). The removal test also passes: remove defamiliarization and perception as a cultivated practice in art/literature loses its core method.

Foreground is a perceptual phenomenon in visual composition — the figure that stands out in perception against ground. Per Law 8 removal test: remove perception and foreground stops operating entirely; without the capacity to perceive figure/ground organization, the concept of foreground has no mechanism to function. This is object-level dependency, not meta-level (Law 2b).

A cognitive affordance operates by being perceived: remove perception and the affordance cannot signal what it affords. The removal test passes — an affordance that cannot be perceived operates for no one.

A hallucination requires perception to operate — it is a perceptual experience without corresponding external stimulus. Remove perception and hallucination ceases to operate entirely. Law 8: present-tense dependency, not mere association.

Loudness is a human-made perceptual construct for quantifying sound intensity. Remove perception and loudness as a perceptual magnitude loses its referent. The concept operates within the domain of subjective experience.

Priming operates by making a stimulus more perceptually accessible; the prime stimulus must be detected through perception to affect subsequent processing. Remove perception — no stimulus is registered, priming collapses entirely. This is the removal test, not a meta-level claim about concepts needing names.