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Affordances can't be redefined as symbols

Affordances aren't like symbols. They don't mediate between the organism and its environment. Affordances are directly "picked up" by the organism. So it is inapporpriate to redefine affordances as symbols.

James Greeno & Joyce Moore (1993).
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