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• What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are…
• The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.
• The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
• Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.
• Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and…
• The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout…
• I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are…
• A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.
• The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not…
• There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception…
• The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

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