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... statistical foreseeability . In other words , to foresee means to see beforehand . Foreseeability is the receptor's capacity to know , as the message unfolds in time or space , what will follow on the basis of what has been transmitted ...
... statistical foreseeability . In other words , to foresee means to see beforehand . Foreseeability is the receptor's capacity to know , as the message unfolds in time or space , what will follow on the basis of what has been transmitted ...
Page 96
... statistical law about messages to be received emerges . 6. MEMORIZATION AND INFORMATION A memorandum of a past event is constructed from the elements already selected by perception . If , for example , the past event is an esthetic ...
... statistical law about messages to be received emerges . 6. MEMORIZATION AND INFORMATION A memorandum of a past event is constructed from the elements already selected by perception . If , for example , the past event is an esthetic ...
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... statistical theory of memory which is essentially a theory of forgetting ; the theory takes account satis- factorily of the fluctuations of memory - and therefore of the statistical symbolization which is our subject . This theory rests ...
... statistical theory of memory which is essentially a theory of forgetting ; the theory takes account satis- factorily of the fluctuations of memory - and therefore of the statistical symbolization which is our subject . This theory rests ...
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