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One good way to gain an understanding of trace theory is to see what sort of question it purports to answer. An example of this sort would be: “When a person hums a tune he is familiar with, how can he possibly get it all right?” Trace theory is an attempt at providing a scientific answer to this question, and, of course, to a great many more like it. Other questions of this type might be, for example, “How can a person recognize a friend walking down the street?”, or, “How can I recognize the Mona Lisa, without confusing it with some other painting?”, or, “When I say that a drink smells like strawberries, how do I pick that smell, rather than (say) rotten eggs?”
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Bursen, H.A. (1978). An Introduction to Trace Theory. In: Dismantling the Memory Machine. Synthese Library, vol 128. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9885-8_1
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