[HN Gopher] Language is The Scaffold of The Mind (2019)
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Language is The Scaffold of The Mind (2019)
Author : Kinrany
Score : 15 points
Date : 2021-11-04 08:04 UTC (14 hours ago)
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| dang wrote:
| Discussed at the time:
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| _Language Is the Scaffold of the Mind_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21085946 - Sept 2019 (37
| comments)
| heresie-dabord wrote:
| For language to work, there must be reasoning: "Given the
| available tooling, how do I communicate this thing or idea?" and
| "How can I understand what the other person just said or wrote?"
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| For broken communication to be fixed, there must be debugging.
| Discussion and laughter are essential.
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| Human reason is as ancient a capacity as language itself.
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