A joke, and an example of using a more-precise word instead of the most-accessible word. Other mammals don’t speak, but I’d bet they have concepts and contexts activated by those concepts. Invertebrates seem to have less-flexible, less context-sensitive categories; so my guess as to what having connotations distinguishes us from, is invertebrates.
A joke, and an example of using a more-precise word instead of the most-accessible word. Other mammals don’t speak, but I’d bet they have concepts and contexts activated by those concepts. Invertebrates seem to have less-flexible, less context-sensitive categories; so my guess as to what having connotations distinguishes us from, is invertebrates.