2006 年 25 巻 1 号 p. 31-34
About the perception of causality, a lot of researches of Albert Michotte are famous. Phenomenal causality is perception of the motive power of an object. It appears to move by itself or something other's power. Michotte showed that the verbal descriptions of perceived causal relation changed only by the changes in the conditions on vision. Michotte believed that our perception was not limited by the elements of sensation, and our perceived world was meaningful. At that time, the hypothesis of perceptual causality based on the elementalism is predominant. For Michotte, it was necessary to resist it. However, the kind of relations that we perceive is not limited to the causal relation. This paper doesn't limit to causal relation and discusses the perceptual organization of meaning more widely.