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"There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other."
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"The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either."

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"There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other."
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