Sentence examples for invitation character from inspiring English sources

It then describes Hubert Dreyfus' critique of affordances and his phenomenological rehabilitation of their invitation character.

Dreyfus thereby rehabilitates the invitation character of affordances: Affordances are magnetic entities that do not just offer a range of action possibilities, but actively invite specific actions (and repel others).

Instead, the article advocates a phenomenological approach that retains Gibson's direct realism, but adds concern for the so-called invitation character (Aufforderungscharakter) of affordances: Affordances do not simply offer a range of action possibilities; they actively invite certain actions.

Finally, to protect the concept of affordances from the perceived dualism of Gestalt theory, Gibson denied that affordances are defined in terms of their invitation character (Aufforderungscharakter) and described them as real and permanent features of the environment: "An affordance is not bestowed upon an object by a need of an observer and his act of perceiving it.

But it is also, as the editor of the economic daily Calcalist has argued, an invitation for "character assassination".

Activate it and you can send a broad selection of pictures, from animals like bears and mice, to pictures of mugs clinking - a one-character invitation for drinks.

But the tragedies and difficulties that afflict the Laments -- a dead baby, a son with a severed hand, a suicidal out-of-work father and worse -- are carried carefully in a basket of bitter humor; any apparent invitation to either characters or readers to fall into a sentimental slump is quickly withdrawn.

The invitation allowed for the character of coordination to emerge.

The company has also scored a deal which will see it becoming the exclusive provider of digital invitations featuring Disney characters for Disney Interactive's Spoonful.com.

Their characters, music, and invitation to be our unique selves, influenced and changed us.

The edit, which reduced the role of the ridiculed character Jar Jar Binks, was an invitation for others to follow.