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It makes sense to me. It matches my experience. I can't think of examples, sorry, but I do know there have been times I've learnt new categories by words (and o
by tempguy9999 7y ago
It makes sense to me. It matches my experience. I can't think of examples, sorry, but I do know there have been times I've learnt new categories by words (and of course an explanation of where they differed; the semantics of the words), suddenly distinctions became obvious that weren't before.
I wish I could recall examples, so this is just a vague statement of 'in my experience' but that linguistic distinction creates categories that allow easier 'recognition' of different concepts I'd lumped together before.
- sorokod 7y agoI think that a relevant example here would be categorizing "red" and " green" to a colour blind person.
- tempguy9999 7y agoI don't think so, as that categorisation can't be perceived by them. Like, they can't see it. I'm saying that once 2 categories had been conceptually distinguished, I could split them apart immediately because the difference had been explain, whereas they were amorphously lumped together in my head before. Typically those categories had different words, but even without that the distinction became evident.
- kadoban 7y agoIt's besides the point, but that's actually not how typical red-green colorblindness works. We can see both red and green as separate colors, it's just much harder to distinguish them than it is for other people (especially if they are mixed in with other colors). As far as I understand the physiology, our eyes are much less sensitive to green light, so it just doesn't stand out as much.
- tempguy9999 7y agoVery much on point, and I learned something. Ta.