ABSTRACT
To make sense of the world we need to be able to analyse its constituent parts, to perceive it in smaller, more manageable sections. We need to learn this because the amount of information we receive is otherwise so great that we would not know how to deal with it. Once we know how to classify we also need to know how to build up parts into a whole. When sentences are spoken they do not actually come out in separate words; it is our understanding of the words that helps us analyse what takes place. When we read a line of print we do not go through every letter; we can scan a whole line so fast that we forget the labour of memory and synthesis that once went into reading. A reader who looks at:
axsentencexthatxcontinuesxinxthisxwayxwithxthexspacesxfilled
