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Comment by TeMPOraL

Forgive me for making a somewhat philosophical tangent.

It has been said that naming things is fundamental to our abstract thinking. The ability to not only group some concepts together, but to give a single label to this group that is further composable, enables us to do more complex, more advanced things with those concepts.

To present a very clear example:

> In China, (...) they call their holdout houses “nail houses.”

Finally I know what words to type into Google Images to find pictures of those.

parent TeMPOraL 12 years ago

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