Something that's been a centerpiece of this conversation is the idea that James J Gibson, which John Vervaeke admits that 4E Cognitive Science owes a lot of debt to, in Vervaeke's consideration, overthrew nominalism and representationalism. Some definitions of those:
Nominalism:
the doctrine that universals or general ideas are mere names without any corresponding reality, and that only particular objects exist; properties, numbers, and sets are thought of as merely features of the way of considering the things that exist. Important in medieval scholastic thought, nominalism is associated particularly with William of Occam.
Couldn't find a satisfactory definition quickly for 'representationalism' but it seems to amount to the idea that the only contact that we have with the world is internal representation and that it's pure facsimile.
Something I found on James J Gibson:
Quote:
Gibson challenged the idea that the nervous system actively constructs conscious visual perception, and instead promoted ecological psychology, in which the mind directly perceives environmental stimuli without additional cognitive construction or processing.
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19 Mar 2023, 5:31 pm
