Arrrr. Shiver me timbers. I shore be curious what the rank be of “Linda is active in the feminist movement and is a bank teller” would be, seeing as how its meanin’ is so far diff’rent from the larboard one aloft.
A tip ‘o the cap to the swabbies what found a more accurate definition of “probability” (I be meanin’ “representation”.) than what logicians assert the meaning o’ “probability” be. Does that mean, at a score of one to zero, all psychologists are better lexicographers than all logicians?
Quote: “We think in words, ”
No we don’t. Apparently you do, though. No reason to believe otherwise. :)
Please keep up these postings! They are very enjoyable.
Going back to “explaining” something by naming it (from a couple of your earlier posts):
e.g. Q: Why does this block fall to the floor when I let go of it? … A: Gravity!
I always thought that such explanations were common side-effects of thinking in words. Sort of like optical illusions are side-effects of how the visual system works. Perhaps not. One does not need to use words to think symbolically. There are, after all, other ways to do lossy compression than with symbols.
Anyway, I’ll still assert that it’s easier to fall for such an “explanation” if you think in words. … An easy assertion, given how hard it is to count the times one does it!