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Ecological thinking does not come readily or unproblematically to us moderns, for reasons to be examined in a moment. As in certain kinds of optical illusion, one must learn the trick of seeing familiar things in a new way. This gets easier with practice—but not that easy.
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Fettes, M. (2002). Critical Realism, Ecological Psychology, and Imagined Communities. In: Leather, J., van Dam, J. (eds) Ecology of Language Acquisition. Educational Linguistics, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0341-3_2
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