As soon as our brain can identify something that we know a name for, we instantly slap that label on the thing and we never see another detail of it's actual ex

As soon as our brain can identify something that we know a name for, we instantly slap that label on the thing and we never see another detail of it's actual existence. That kind of covering up endless layers of detail is essential to prevent being bogged down in the real world, but it's also a major inhibitor to getting over stereotypes and uncovering new facts. Yeah, that strikes me as one of those fundamental conundrums that crops up sometimes. A little bit like the exploration/exploitation tradeoff or something. Naming things is "bad" in that it hides the details and ends the need to pay attention to those details and sort of locks the concept in a stasis a bit. But OTOH, naming thing is "good" exactly because it hides the details and allows us to use the concept more freely. The whole "design patterns" notion in software development seems to encapsulate this idea.