Exploration of how humans reason about holes in space, indicating implications for understanding spatial cognition.
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.
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Achille C. Varzi (2003) studied this question.
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