The Mental Affordance Hypothesis.
Our successful engagement with the world is plausibly underwritten by our sensitivity to affordances in our immediate environment. The considerable literature on affordances focuses almost exclusively on affordances for bodily actions such as gripping, walking or eating. I propose that we are also s...
| Publicado en: | Mind (0026-4423) Vol. 129; no. 514; pp. 401 - 428 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2020
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