Law of Closure

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a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric

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synonym: closure
plural: Law of Closures
possessive: Law of Closure's
pluralpossessive: Law of Closures'

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