Re: principles

At 06:51 AM 8/17/2000 , William Loughborough wrote:
>WL: We seem to assume that "cognitive barriers" is a way of saying that
>their possessor *can't* "comprehend the information"? 

Cognitive barriers is a way of saying that the document contains
artificial barriers which prevent understanding.

I think.

In other words, we need to make sure we're not talking about
defects in -people- but rather defects -in the ability of the
document to present itself properly-.

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