this is fun! I absolutely "kanizsa" the gapped ring into a full one. I see it passing through the gaps, but the experience is somehow very surprising? I dont how completion relates to solidity and physics in your framework, but I feel like both predictions could have been warranted

To clarify: you are a muddlehead only if you think _every_ ”verbal disagreement “ comes down to a ‘matter of semantics’ (and not to a matter of fact for instance).

He too! Thats the point.

makes perfect sense: both are based on questioning/problematizing things that seem very natural and taken for granted otherwise
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I feel that having an “if you wouldnt have X you also wouldnt have Y” part is a critical for having a functional explanation

Wait, so whatever X correlates with is X-s function? Here is another intuition: when you see contrails, the plane is pretty high or in other words you cannot fly very high if you dont generate some contrails.

Such a cool way to go about this question, this study is a beauty! I am still unsure about "real-world size". In our paper (in JEP:G) we found that the very same picture (even with the same rotation) could generate different interpretations and size estimates: funky if effect is driven by IRLsize

I’m okay with this as long as we are all doing Hungarian as it “wears its LF on its sleeve” (according to Hungarians).

it works incredibly well for me... and this difference can be only explained by a culture-specific variation of tridents/pitchfork motifs in the environment. There is absolutely no other way