Reasoning about space: The hole story
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https://doi.org/10.12775/LLP.1996.001Abstract
Much of our naive reasoning about space involves reasoning about holes and holed objects. We put things in holes, through holes, around them; we jump out of a hole or fall into one; we compare holes, measure them, enlarge them, fill them up.References
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