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I wish to thank my colleague, Drs. G. de Nie, for translating this paper. For her critical reading of and valuable comments on its content, I am particularly indebted to Dr. J.M. van Winter.
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What I have called a cognitive basis is, seen from the field of cognitive psychology, a collection of perceptual schemata bedded in a cognitive map which orients and directs the behaviour of the devout on his journey to eternity. See, among others, U. Neisser,Cognition and Reality: Principles an Implications of Cognitive Psychology. San Francisco, 1976. J. Deese, “Conceptual Categories in the Study of Content” in: G. Gerbner; O.R. Holsti; K. Krippendorff; W.J. Paisley and P.J. Stone, ed.,The Analysis of Communication Content: Developments in Scientific Theories and Computer Technique (New York and London, 1969), 47, 48.
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Breure, L. The cognitive basis of late medieval religious biographies. Comput Hum 12, 145–154 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02392927
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