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James J. Gibson _ The Ecological Approach to
To kiss someone, magnify the face-form, if the facial expression is amiable, so as almost to fill the field of view. {It is absolutely essential for one to keep one's eyes open so as to avoid collision. It is also wise to learn to discriminate those subtle invariants that specify amiability.}
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James J. Gibson _ The Ecological Approach to
It must be admitted that when I turn around while driving our car and reply to my wife's protests that I can perfectly well see where I am going without having to look where I am going because the focus of outflow is implicit, she is not reassured.
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James J. Gibson _ The Ecological Approach to
And the careful manipulation of the occluding edges of clothing with progressive revealing of skin is a form of the theatrical art called stripping.
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James J. Gibson _ The Ecological Approach to
But then, of course, one can peek through the fingers, which is not only pleasurable but a lesson in practical optics.
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James J. Gibson _ The Ecological Approach to
We should begin thinking of events as the primary realities and of time as an abstraction from them-a concept derived mainly from regular repeating events, such as the ticking of clocks. Events are perceived, but time is not {Gibson, 1975}.
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James J. Gibson _ The Ecological Approach to
But, actually, an affordance is neither an objective property nor a subjective property; or it is both if you like. An affordance cuts across the dichotomy of subjective-objective and helps us to understand its inadequacy. It is equally a fact of the environment and a fact of behavior. It is both physical and psychical, yet neither. An affordance points both ways, to the environment and to the observer.
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