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/kˈɑmən feɪt/ Listen

Common fate

noun

A Gestalt principle of organization holding that aspects of perceptual field that move or function in a similar manner will be perceived as a unit. Synonym: law of common fate.

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"Common fate" Quotes from Famous Books

... remember the scene now—not all the squalor of the room could efface or diminish the majesty of their two figures. They sat like two tall old kings, eye to eye, not friends, or reconciled only in this last and lonely hour by meditation on man's common fate. If I cannot make you understand this, what follows will seem to you absurd, though indeed at the ...

— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine

... a good day, O blessed Neferhotep, thou patriarch perfect and pure of hands! He finished his existence ... (the common fate of men). Their abodes pass away, and their place is not; they are as they had never been born since the time of Ra. (They in the shades) are sitting on the bank of the river, thy soul is among them, drinking its sacred water, following thy heart, at peace ...(535) ...

— Egyptian Literature

Words linked to "Common fate" : law of common fate, Gestalt principle of organization, Gestalt law of organization