The intentionality of conceptually mediated perception, the standard case of perception, is analyzed. By eliminating the understanding of concepts, a conception of immediate perception and its intentionality is explicated. While conceptually mediated perception is propositional, immediate perception is informational, characterized by prefigurations of categories that do not imply an understanding of the concept of truth. The model of immediate perception is applied to experimental results on infant perceptual capacities in the first months of life. Prefigurations of the categories of object, identity, existence, permanence, and perceiver-object relation are discussed.
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