Concept
Batting (cricket)
Overview
a skill in the sport of cricket
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The results of the activity that is as yet partly suppressed are already expressed or anticipated in the perception. The present experience may, as James says, "shoot its perspective far before it, irradiating in advance the regions in which lie the thoughts as yet unborn."[38] A baseball player, for example, who is all "set" to field a ball as a preliminary to a further play, sees the ball, not simply as an…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
Close in meaning to Batting; the term itself is not named.
With this important weapon the Indian catches his game, and also his horse, which roams free over the plain. In fighting, his first attempt is to throw down the horse of his adversary with the bolas, and when entangled by the fall to kill him with the chuzo. If the balls only catch the neck or body of an animal, they are often carried away and lost. As the making the stones round is the labour of two days, the…
Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under
Close in meaning to Batting; the term itself is not named.
Suppose that some one rolls a ball to a child; he catches it and rolls it back, and the game goes on. Here the stimulus is not just the sight of the ball, or the sight of the other rolling it. It is the situation--the game which is playing. The response is not merely rolling the ball back; it is rolling it back so that the other one may catch and return it,--that the game may continue. The "pattern" or model is not…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
Close in meaning to Batting; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Batting (cricket)
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Place in the tradition
Part of Edward Craig (philosopher).