The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.
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The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.James J. Gibson
What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
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The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
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A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.
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There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.
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