Abstract

The serious import of Gibson’s statement warning that physics “abstractions” of space and time “are not appropriate to psychology,” has not been understood. Underlying the space and time of physics is a largely unexamined metaphysic, what can be termed the “classic” (or spatial) metaphysic. This metaphysic is what Gibson implicitly rejected. His concept of direct perception, and necessarily then, direct memory, rely on, in fact, require, an alternative metaphysic of space and time for their understandability – what can be termed a “temporal metaphysic,” a framework which was explicitly developed by Bergson in Matter and Memory.

中文翻译：

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吉布森与时间：直接感知的时间框架

摘要

吉布森警告说物理学对空间和时间的“抽象”“不适用于心理学”的声明的严重含义尚未被理解。物理学的空间和时间背后是一个很大程度上未经检验的形而上学，可以称为“经典”（或空间）形而上学。这种形而上学是吉布森含蓄地拒绝的。他的直接感知概念，以及必然的直接记忆，实际上需要另一种空间和时间的形而上学来理解它们——可以称为“时间形而上学”，这是一个由柏格森明确发展的框架在物质和记忆中。