{"id":7293,"date":"2019-05-22T15:55:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/appearance-reality_distinction\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:18","slug":"appearance-reality_distinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/appearance-reality_distinction\/","title":{"rendered":"Appearance-reality distinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to distinguish the appearance of an object or situation (e.g., &#8216;looks like \u2026&#8217;) from its underlying reality (&#8216;really truly is&#8217;). &nbsp;For example, a white lamb seen through a red filter appears to be red, but is really white. &nbsp;This ability has been hypothesized to be maturationally constrained as it appears universally between 3 and 5 years of age. &nbsp;This distinction, dealt with extensively by <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/kant\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/kant&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Immanuel Kant<\/a> (1724-1804), still remains a deep-seated problem in philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"animistic_thinking\">Animistic thinking<\/a>, <a href=\"autism\">Autism<\/a>, <a href=\"geocentric_perspective\">Geocentric perspective<\/a>, <a href=\"implicate_order\">Implicate order<\/a>, <a href=\"ontology\">Ontology<\/a>, Theory of the child&#8217;s mind (ToM)<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to distinguish the appearance of an object or situation (e.g., &#8216;looks like \u2026&#8217;) from its underlying reality (&#8216;really truly is&#8217;). &nbsp;For example, a white lamb seen through a red filter appears to be red, but is really white. &nbsp;This ability has been hypothesized to be maturationally constrained as it appears universally between 3 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/appearance-reality_distinction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appearance-reality distinction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}