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EXPERIENCE experience experience gap experience transfer experience, null virtual experience Complete Term List

 

Dictionary Definition from Wordnet

1. (4) gap, spread -- (a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures; "gap between income and outgo"; "the spread between lending and borrowing costs") 2. (2) opening, gap -- (an open or empty space in or between things; "there was a small opening between the trees"; "the explosion made a gap in the wall") 3. (2) gap, crack -- (a narrow opening; "he opened the window a crack") 5. gap -- (a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations)

 

 

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Working Definition:

experience gaps:  The difference between persons experiences.  Experiences that go beyond persons experience parameters (beyond the experiences in their memory systems) but which have been enjoyed by the persons with whom the subjects are communicating.

Disciplinary Definitions:

"Experience gap" is not a technical term. I have coined the term to describe the result of a null experience.

Comments:

In The Act of Reading, Wolfgang Iser uses the term "gap" to describe the circumstance that readers cannot make sense of the text because they lack the contextual information needed. I am using "gap" in a parallel sense--"reading" (understanding) another person.

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