- Example: For animals their environment consists primarily of affordances: things they can mate with, eat, shelter.
- Insight: Every human and animal has a set of things in the world that matter to it, that it can use.
Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
by Daniel C. Dennet
Published date: 2013
Category: Reference
Index Topics & Notes
- Insight: Don't create a complicated theory, if a simpler one exists.
- Reference: Attributed to William of Ockham, 14th centure philosopher.
- Reference: The rule of thumb is much older: Latin lex parsimonie, the law of parsimony.