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"When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualizing, you probably hunt about till
by mike_organon 17y ago
"When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualizing, you probably hunt about till you find the exact words that seem to fit it."
I can't see how this can be done for subjects other than physical objects. I think in words, not pure concepts. How can you visualize subjects like politics or metaphors and language?
- Radix 17y agoWell, when I metacognate, I kinda feel the connotations of words. In some sentences different connotations will be stronger than others or dropped. So, these abstract concepts fall into this abstract network of concepts. For the word politics one might be teaching children at a summer camp. While teaching them one may notice the kids have fallen into a popularity hierarchy. When recounting the kids social structure one could describe struggles over their social order as fights amongst clicks or the kids politics. Whichever description comes up first, and depending on what lesser connotations or more desirable. That's the way I believe it works, but I'm not sure I've conveyed it very well. It's an abstract idea that I don't know how to convey (there is a better word) well.