Making sense is never matching or mere one-to-one correspondence which is an assumption of visual bias. For the ear makes an “acoustic space structure” with centers everywhere and margins nowhere, like a musical surround or the boundless universe. Making sense involved “unified sensibility” or synaesthesia, as E.H. Gombrich explains.
“Symposium” (1973), p 13
Year: 1973
Chapter:
Matching and Making
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Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
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