In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume it is true and try to imagine what it could be true of.

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George Armitage Miller
American psychologist (1920-2012) whose 1956 paper "The Magical Number Seven" named the short-term memory limit and helped launch the cognitive revolution. Co-founded cognitive science with Chomsky; led WordNet.
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