The meaning of a word X when used with that word is It varies from person to person.
- I have often experienced as an observational fact A series of pictures of two people saying different things.
- Assuming that they’re different, for most homo sapiens, communication becomes a high-stakes task that’s beyond their control.
- So it assumes as a working hypothesis that the meanings of the words are equal, even though it is clear from the observed facts that this is an incorrect assumption.
- The Story of Your Life (Spoiler Alert)
- Intelligent bodies that are not homo sapiens. may be using a language system that does not make this ludicrous assumption.
- From their point of view, it looks like “you are making strange assumptions without acknowledging them when they are obvious from the facts of observation.
- The Story of Your Life (Spoiler Alert)
What language system is such a language system?
- For example, “some X and some Y initially appear to be in conflict, but then some Z appears, and it is better than either.”
- The composition “XYZ” can be shared even with a partner who has a different concrete XYZ
- In fact, I’m using variables as placeholders rather than concrete ones in the example here.
- Even if no word is assigned to this composition, it can be used by analogy.
- Related Allegory and Symbolism.
- suggestion
- anonymous function
lambda x, y: x + ycan be used without a name and without concrete x and y values
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