[HN Gopher] To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees
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       To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees
        
       Author : yamrzou
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2024-06-16 22:09 UTC (50 minutes ago)
        
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       | jebarker wrote:
       | This would make a good koan
        
       | dTal wrote:
       | "See that bird? It's a brown-throated thrush, but in Germany it's
       | called a Halzenfugel, and in Chinese they call it a Chung Ling
       | and even if you know all those names for it, you still know
       | nothing about the bird. You only know something about people;
       | what they call the bird. Now that thrush sings, and teaches its
       | young to fly, and flies so many miles away during the summer
       | across the country, and nobody knows how it finds its way."
       | 
       | --Richard P. Feynman
        
       | gmuslera wrote:
       | The map is not the territory. Your dog is not any dog. And you
       | may perceive enough differences between the abstract thing and
       | the real, present one, to disconnect the abstraction name from
       | it. To the point to be out of words to name it.
        
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