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The Language of Relativity as Related to Reading Readiness

W. J. Osburn, Mirriel Huntington, Viola Meeks

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We decided to do some further reading on the subject. It seems that primitive man like those of our time craved some explanation of the world in which they found themselves. Being without our scientific instruments, it was inevitable that they could have only a superficial view of what they could see with the naked eye. For some reason their chief interest lay in finding an answer to what the world is made of. The answer that they ar rived at was that all things are made of: 1. atoms (things cut or broken off 583

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Key concepts: Reading (process), Subject (documents), Theory of relativity, Linguistic relativity, Computer science, Epistemology, Linguistics, Psychology