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 hypothesis that things have affordances, and that we perceive or learn to perceive them, is very promising, radical, but not yet elaborated.
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The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.
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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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Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.
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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.
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