Apopheniaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /æpəˈfiːni.ə/

名詞

apophenia (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 apophenias)

1. (psychology) The perception of or belief in connectedness among unrelated phenomena.

   Hyponyms: pareidolia, Monte Carlo fallacy

   • 2004, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

     Apophenia, Win had declared it, after due consideration and in his careful way: the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things. And had never, as far as Cayce knows, said another word about it.

   • 2016 April, Hito Steyerl, “A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition”, in e-flux‎^[1], number 72:

     How to recognize something in sheer noise? A striking visual example of pure and conscious apophenia was recently demonstrated by research labs at Google: […]

派生語

• apophenic

Further reading

• apophenia on Wikipedia.