affordance

is a way of seeing objects' relations to us such that we can say 'the chair invites us to sit down'.

the chair invites us to sit down' 8 (1962: 280).

is the way a thing in the world offers itself to be used by us.

Things give themselves over to our use. They are soliciations. and they do so because of the things that they are, the bodies that we have, and the tasks that we aim to undertake. 'what we call a hammer has an affordance for hammering, with hammering, it has an affordance for fastening, with fastening, it has an affordance for protection from the weather

is what the environment offers the individual

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affordance