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Radman, Z. Simbol, stvarnost i stvaralaštvo: Ogled o percepciji [Symbol, Reality, and Creativity: An Essay on Perception], Zagreb: HFD, 1988 (in Croatian).

Most theories of perception are based on the 17th century model of percpetion according to which external stimuli imprint information upon the senses, which then record and transmit them faithfully. On the other hand there are tendencies to interpret perception as inward-outward activity, whose sense-organ is the 'eye of the mind'. The one-sidedness of both empiricist and rationalist models has been criticised, and a new - interactionalist - one proposed. 
One of the early conclusions is that percpetion depends heavily on extra-perceptual elements. Visual experience, for example, is then not solely a function of the eye, but is also shaped by actions of the hand (or by the mouth, in the case of babies). Above all, modes of seeing are molded by the creative skills that lead to the production of symbolic artifacts.
Articulation of symbols becomes the mode of articulation of experience. Different symbolic languages (scientific, artistic, literal, etc.) speak of reality in their own specific ways. They cannot be reduced to one another, and none should be subordinated to the others, since they are all objective and true in their own terms. Such pluralism of symbolic values gives rise to a rich and varied range of perspectives on the nature of human knowing, including perceiving.

 

 

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