The Law of Closure says that the mind may perceive elements it does not physically experience through sensation in order to complete a regular figure (that is, to increase regularity). The law of closure is applicable to shapes, images and words.
Shapes.
The most typical example of this is the perception of dashed and dotted lines. Though they do not technically bound, say, a square or triangle, the mind perceives the whole.
Images.
Images, say a photograph, can also be “closed” by the brain. Take, for example, this picture:
What do you see in this picture? Is it a just a bunch of black and white dots? Do you find closure working for you? Do you see the dog?
Words.
Another example is found in linguistics where we find that the brain can handle words when some or even many letters are dropped. This verbal equivalent of a dotted line makes the case:
The point is that, holding all other things equal, the brain has “a tendency to group into unified structure those components that together constitute a closed entity rather than an open one.”
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