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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having power to enact, or establish as a law.

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  • adjective Having power to enact or establish as a law.

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  • adjective Having power to enact or establish as a law.

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Examples

  • These are directed toward the purpose of the book (it ought to be for an audience that would include teachers), its style and organization (loose and weak), and its content, especially the presentation of Bruner's very important observations and interpretations of the human modes of knowing which he calls the enactive, the iconic, and the symbolic.

    A Psychological Issue Hawkins, David 1966

  • And on the other side, I cannot accept Bruner's sharp distinction between "enactive" and "iconic."

    A Psychological Issue Hawkins, David 1966

  • On the other, several cognitive psychologists suggested versions of what may be called enactive (or sensorimotor, or perceptual activity) [40] imagery theories (Hochberg, 1968; Hebb, 1968, 1969; Gibson, 1970,

    His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

  • Farley (1974, 1976) developed a computer simulation inspired by Hochberg's version of enactive theory, and Hampson & Morris

    His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

  • Proposes one of the most fully developed versions of the enactive theory of imagery: an alternative to both pictorial/analog and propositional/descriptional accounts.

    His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

  • However, with those exceptions, in the 1970s and 80s the enactive approach to imagery attracted very little attention.

    His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

  • Clearly these findings support the enactive theory.

    His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

  • More specifically, the enactive theories do not fit comfortably, if at all, into the framework of computational information processing theory that shaped most scientists 'thinking about perception and perceptual experience.

    His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

  • Covers quasi-pictorial, description, and enactive theories, and attempts a theoretical synthesis.

    His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

  • Proposes and defends a "perceptual activity" (enactive) theory of imagery, arguing that is both empirically and conceptually superior to both quasi-pictorial and propositional theories.

    His Name Was Do Re Mi 2009

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