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Reply Thu 1 Nov, 2012 03:03 am
Does "so it makes sense for systematic biases in the form of temporal binding to kick in" mean " so that systematic biases in the form of temporal binding starts to join makes sense"?

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"We already know that people are more likely to infer a causal relation if two things are close in time. It follows, via Bayesian calculus, that the reverse should also be true: If people know two things are causally related, they should expect them to be close in time," Buehner says. "Time perception is inherently uncertain, so it makes sense for systematic biases in the form of temporal binding to kick in. If this is true, then it would suggest that temporal binding is a general phenomenon of which intentional action is just a special case."
 
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Reply Thu 1 Nov, 2012 12:16 pm
"kick in" is an informal, colloquial phrase meaning "have (or take) effect".

oristarA
 
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Reply Thu 1 Nov, 2012 07:05 pm
@contrex,
contrex wrote:

"kick in" is an informal, colloquial phrase meaning "have (or take) effect".


Thanks.
Does "so it makes sense for systematic biases in the form of temporal binding to kick in" mean " so that systematic biases in the form of temporal binding takes effect makes sense"?
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contrex
 
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Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 11:20 am
take [or have] effect (plural)
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Reply Fri 2 Nov, 2012 03:24 pm
@oristarA,
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Does "so it makes sense for systematic biases in the form of temporal binding to kick in" mean " so that systematic biases in the form of temporal binding takes effect makes sense"?


No, the author isn’t saying that systematic biases in the form of temporal binding take (plural) effect so that they may make (again, plural) sense, he is saying that it make sense (i.e. it is understandable, reasonable, logical, etc.) that systematic biases in the form of temporal binding take effect because time perception is inherently uncertain.

In this sentence “so” is used to mean “thus,” “hence,” “therefore,” etc.
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