Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of RdsWipWorldView/ThoughtAndLanguage
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v1 v2 18 18 Frequently, this means that humans hold to lore that while useful, might not be correct. But its usefulness extends beyond its value as an approximation, or a rule of thumb: it is useful because human languages makes it concise to communicate to other humans. 19 19 20 Fundamentally, patterns and generalizations are concise to communicate in human language because human language is based on the same principle - generalizations and analogies that are not intended to be either comprehensive in scope, or literal in application. For example: 20 == Generalization and Analogy == 21 22 Fundamentally, patterns and generalizations are concise to communicate in human language because human language is based on the same principles - generalizations and analogies that are not intended to be either comprehensive in scope, or literal in application. For example: 21 23 22 24 "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree ..." … … 26 28 "... but he was definitely the black sheep of the family." 27 29 28 The same ''flexibility'' exists in all human languages and in almost all universes of discourse, short of some mathematics and philosophy - purely abstract universes that do not deal with the real world.30 The same ''flexibility'' exists in all human languages and in almost all disciplines, short of some mathematics and philosophy - purely abstract universes that do not deal with the real world. 29 31 30 32 Even physics, chemistry and especially biology and linguistics have shorthands that are universally used in spite of being rife with exceptions and addenda: newtonian physics and thermodynamics were the building blocks of 19th century engineering, and yet they only apply well within particular limitations of scale - demonstrably they are not useless, but neither are they "right".
