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perhaps why the highly literate Westerner steeped in the lineal
and homogeneous modes of print culture has much trouble
with the non-visual world of modern mathematics and physics.
The “backward” or audile-tactile countries have a great
advantage here.
Another basic advantage of cultural clash and transition
is that people on the frontier between different modes of
experience develop a great power of generalization. McGeoch
says (p. 396): “Generalization, likewise, is a form of transfer,
whether at the comparatively elementary level of conditioned
responses . . . or at the complex level of abstract scientific
generalization, where a single statement sums up a myriad of
particulars.”
We can generalize this statement at once by pointing out