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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

Holiday Words and Their Meaning Quirks

How do words get their meanings? Why does the string of letters (and sounds) "d-o-g" mean "dog" and "c-a-t" mean "cat"? For the most part, meanings are conventions: A group of people (like speakers of a given language) agree that "d-o-g" refers to one type of animal and "c-a-t" refers to another. Other than a few words like "woof" or "ding dong" that sound like what they mean, there's usually no inherent relation between the sounds and the objects they denote. That's why "dog" is "chien" in French and "gǒu" in Mandarin Chinese.
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Philosophy
fromWarpweftandway
2 months ago

Episode 26 of "This Is the Way": The White Horse Dialogue-Language, Logic, and Categories in Early China

The predicate 'white' restricts the category 'horse' so that 'white horse' denotes a subset distinct from the general category 'horse'.
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fromMedium
7 months ago

Figma Sites: innovation or exploitation?

Semantic HTML and meaningful class structures enhance accessibility, readability, and SEO effectiveness.
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