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... interest is thus eliminated , since everything is a priori equally interesting . In the last case , a major simplification is introduced when the scale of discriminated contrasts L ( 2 ) reduces to two values through infinite clipping ...
... interest is thus eliminated , since everything is a priori equally interesting . In the last case , a major simplification is introduced when the scale of discriminated contrasts L ( 2 ) reduces to two values through infinite clipping ...
Page 77
... interest . This lack of interest in fact defines backgrounds against which interesting phenomena are to stand out . Moreover , within the message are perturbations or errors , which also do not interest the receptor . We shall now study ...
... interest . This lack of interest in fact defines backgrounds against which interesting phenomena are to stand out . Moreover , within the message are perturbations or errors , which also do not interest the receptor . We shall now study ...
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... interest for sensory psychology , these re- sults have a properly psychological interest , for they can be inter- preted as a study of the masking of a morphologically defined but noisy sound ( the noise one octave " wide " ) by a ...
... interest for sensory psychology , these re- sults have a properly psychological interest , for they can be inter- preted as a study of the masking of a morphologically defined but noisy sound ( the noise one octave " wide " ) by a ...
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