o illustrate this possibility,
we transcribe a well-known example from the parallel distributed
processing literature [McR] and work through two of the associated
exercises as portrayed in Existential Graph format.

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|   (( art    ),( al   ),( sam  ),( clyde ),( mike  ),
|    ( jim    ),( greg ),( john ),( doug  ),( lance ),
|    ( george ),( pete ),( fred ),( gene  ),( ralph ),
|    ( phil   ),( ike  ),( nick ),( don   ),( ned   ),( k