>> Binkles have long plackerts and whipitat their snoblats when they get excited What I was most interested by was how much of this example you could understan

>> Binkles have long plackerts and whipitat their snoblats when they get excited What I was most interested by was how much of this example you could understand. A binkle is some kind of animal, a plackert is some kind of body part, i'd imagine a whipitat is some kind of action, and I'd imagine a snoblat is another kind of body part. Already I know more about binkles than I did. You're also, however, a long way from a dog simply by describing a 'barking thing'. There are things that bark that are not dogs, and there are somewhere, dogs that do not bark. Wittgenstein demonstrated that there are an entire set of items that you could call a table than share no common features whatsoever. I'm a fan of the dialectic method for this reason: it encourages people to go beyond the limits of their own knowledge by applying first principles to things they don't understand. This tends to take you a lot further than "here, learn this." Further reading on this: Wittgenstein: Blue and Brown Books (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_and_Brown_Books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_and_Brown_Books) Plato, Meno (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1643/1643-h/1643-h.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1643/1643-h/1643-h.htm)