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  • noun philosophy An object with certain properties causing it to trigger a "blicket detector" (a device that lights up and plays music), introduced in certain experiments relating to causality and perception.

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Introduced by David Sobel and Alison Gopnik of the Psychology Department of UC Berkeley.

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