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Several observations by Landauer and Dumais:


 * ...//weak local constraints// [e.g., in the search for synonymity] //can combine to produce strong inductive effects// (p. 6)


 * ... t//he effects of constraints// [which may be very weak in themselves] //may emerge only in very large naturally generated ensembles. In other words, experiments with miniature or concocted subsets of language experience may not be sufficient to reveal or assess the forces that hold conceptual knowledge together//. (p. 6)


 * To learn a language, you need masses of input data as encountered naturally by people.**

Knowledge comes not just from an immediate stimulus or direct experience with something, e.g., encountering a word, but "//with everything else ever experienced//." (p. 11)

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Landauer, T. K., & Dumais, S. T. (2004). A solution to Plato's problem: The Latent Semantic Analysis theory of acquisition, induction and representation of knowledge. Available at http://lsa.colorado.edu/papers/plato/plato.annote.html.