The paper deals with the topic of the relationship of communication and perception and discusses especially how the evolution of the prevailing forms of communication in a certain society affects the evolution of the processing and conceptualization of perception. The ability to orientate in an autonomous world of objects (which is the basis of the very possibility of scientific investigation) presupposes the consciousness of the distinction of words and things: a consciousness that has become widespread only gradually and is correlated with the development of communication media and with the increasing detachment of communication from perception. Since diffusion of the printing press, communication has become so autonomous that a sharp separation of communicational world (the space of discources and fiction) and perceptual world (object of scientific investigation) is taken for granted. This is the setting we still move within, based on a series of connected distinctions: the distinction of reality and fiction, and above all the classical distinction object/subject.
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