REPRESENTATION (Quantal) 3)
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Mac KAY states: "Representations communicable in a two-valued (yes or no) form are necessarily quantal in structure, since an "imperceptible change" in a two valued logical form is by definition meaningless. All the changes are discrete, therefore the elementary concepts of logical representations are discrete and enumerable…
"In general, a pattern reduced to such fundamental terms will contain a certain number of distinguishable groups or clusters of elements, the elements in each group being indistinguishable among themselves. There are thus two numerical features of interest:
1) The member of distinguishable groups or clusters of indistinguishable elements in a representation, and
2) The number of elements in a given group or cluster" (1969, p.164).
Thus, quantal representation can generally be matricial.
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