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“What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.”
 
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Name:   James J. Gibson
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Jan 27, 1904
 
Date of Death:   Dec 11,  1979
 
Profession:   Psychologist
 
 
 
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