ABSTRACT
In respect to the foregoing, a distinction can be made between what may be called “weak anticipation” and “strong anticipation.” Weak anticipation is a matter of guessing. Strong anticipation is a matter of perceiving. An experiment conducted in respect to the foregoing aspects points to strong anticipation as the mode of coordination. The foregoing are enough to suggest that, at a minimum, Strong Anticipation is a generalization of Direct Perception. At a maximum the foregoing may suggest that the two conceptions are one and the same. Proof awaits an appropriate formalism for ecological realism. Axiomatically, the ecological approach mandates a non-mediational theory of anticipation. It must be so for the theory of direct perception to be self-consistent. To appreciate the usefulness of the occluding edge, consider why it is that anticipation, or perception of the future, is commonly thought to be a special faculty.
