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we listen to anyone speaking is merely a representative
member of a large class of sounds which we have agreed
to accept as symbolically identical in spite of the actual
differences between them.
In this passage he not only notes the ingraining of lineal,
sequential habits, but, even more important, points out the
visual homogenizing of experience in print culture, and the
relegation of auditory and other sensuous complexity to the
background. The reduction of experience to a single sense, the
visual, as a result of typography leads him to speculate that
“the more closely we confine our data for reasoning about
things to data that come to us through one and the same
sense channel the more apt we are to be correct in our
reasoning.” (p. 54) However, this type of reduction or
distortion of all experience to the scale of one sense only is in