]> 2026-06-26T14:31:38+02:00 Annotation:Text:The Development of Language as Purposive Behavior/Yfh5pd4evj 248 en ^"permissions":^"read":ӶӺ,"update":ӶӺ,"delete":ӶӺ,"admin":ӶӺ°,"user":^"id":6,"name":"Sarah Oberbichler"°,"id":"Yfh5pd4evj","ranges":Ӷ^"start":"/divӶ3Ӻ/divӶ4Ӻ/divӶ1Ӻ/pӶ8Ӻ","startOffset":878,"end":"/divӶ3Ӻ/divӶ4Ӻ/divӶ1Ӻ/pӶ9Ӻ","endOffset":211°Ӻ,"quote":"If we substitute the modern cyberneticist’s terms for the three components, we have reference value (for “end”), sensory function (for “sensitivity”), and effector function (for “technique”). That is to say, we have the three components of the basic feedback loop which, we know, can never be constituted by anything less than these three components, because the operation of the loop depends on their circular arrangement in which there is no one point that we can isolate as initial cause, nor one that we can isolate as terminal effect. It is a unitary arrangement in the way it functions and not only in the way we describe it; and since it has been implemented in functioning mechanisms, we can hardly deny its explanatory power.\nAn activity, thus, will be called “purposive” if it serves to reduce or eliminate the discrepancy (negative feedback) between the value of a sensory signal and the reference value in such a “teleological” unit.","highlights":Ӷ^"jQuery3210198368474700013622":^°°,^"jQuery3210198368474700013622":^°°Ӻ,"text":"","order":"mw-content-text","category":"Argumentation2","data_creacio":1562264446587° 2019-07-04T20:20:47Z 2458669.3477662 2019-07-04T18:21:09Z 2458669.2646875 Text:The Development of Language as Purposive Behavior/Yfh5pd4evj