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... method of looking at the subject , let us represent the two - unit by the two adjacent units , blue and green . It is obvious that a normal - sighted person could distinguish different colours even if only two were visible to him . Then ...
... method of looking at the subject , let us represent the two - unit by the two adjacent units , blue and green . It is obvious that a normal - sighted person could distinguish different colours even if only two were visible to him . Then ...
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... method I follow in writing works of some extent . I can really say no more on the sub- ject than the following , for I myself know no more about it , and cannot account for it . When I am , as it were , completely myself , entirely ...
... method I follow in writing works of some extent . I can really say no more on the sub- ject than the following , for I myself know no more about it , and cannot account for it . When I am , as it were , completely myself , entirely ...
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... methods , but a man with this faculty large would find no difficulty in remembering the weight of a pound . It is by means of this faculty , also , that the form and size of objects are partly made out ; thus , if an object be grasped ...
... methods , but a man with this faculty large would find no difficulty in remembering the weight of a pound . It is by means of this faculty , also , that the form and size of objects are partly made out ; thus , if an object be grasped ...
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... method of convenience , there is no necessity for this ; thus , the number ten might be represented by T , and the number eleven by , with equal pro- priety , the repetition commencing at twelve . With regard to the special memory ...
... method of convenience , there is no necessity for this ; thus , the number ten might be represented by T , and the number eleven by , with equal pro- priety , the repetition commencing at twelve . With regard to the special memory ...
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... method he took to obtain it clearly showed that he had not derived his information from any extraneous source . ' When he was asked to multiply together numbers both consisting of more than three figures , he seemed to decompose one or ...
... method he took to obtain it clearly showed that he had not derived his information from any extraneous source . ' When he was asked to multiply together numbers both consisting of more than three figures , he seemed to decompose one or ...
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