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The Similarity
====The Similarity====
The mind assume similarity between phenomena or sensory inputs when they are closely matched order of phenomena. In a philospohical manner it is hard to define similarity in phenomena> For some solution you can go to Churchland<ref>[http://books.google.co.il/books/about/Plato_s_Camera.html?id=-QmCmfTO3TEC&redir_esc=y Paul M. Churchland. (2012). Plato’s Camera: How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals. MIT Press.]</ref>. When using neurons we can say that when signals from the same sets of receptors or from same set of sensory objects occur simultaneously, they will initiate an LTP somewhere down the neural-networks, and will cause induction or LTP between the set of receptors or the set of sensory objects. In an optimal repitation of similar inputs, the LTP will be strength.
 
====Simplicity====
The relation between two similar phenomena might be very simple. They may be linked directly. For instance, A sound of a broken glass may be directly connected to a braking glass. Bit it can be connected in more complex way, for instance there may be some computer that create a breaking sound, whenever I see a breaking glass. Or this connection may be correct until some time, ans it may be wrong in some future time<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Fact-Fiction-Forecast-Fourth-Edition/dp/0674290712 Goodman, N., & Putnam, H. (1983). Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, Fourth Edition (p. 160). Harvard University Press.]</ref>. The reason to chose the most simple connection is beacause the number of available solutions are infinite.There fore for reasons of effective storge, we will use the simplest solution, that describes '''all connections seen''', but we will try to constantly refute it, to see if it still holds.
==Other Asspects of Epistemology==