Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.
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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.James J. Gibson
The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.
James J. Gibson
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
The hypothesis that things have affordances, and that we perceive or learn to perceive them, is very promising, radical, but not yet elaborated.
James J. Gibson
Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.
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I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.
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