People see a peculiar "fit" between objects & their names, as if names were particularly suitable for these objects. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027715300287 …
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@AndreiCimpian I was made aware by readers that Plato already dwelled heavilly on that subject: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-cratylus/ …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @DegenRolf
@DegenRolf Interesting! It seems we may have uncovered the psychological sources of the "naturalist" intuition in Plato's dialogue.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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@AndreiCimpian And the ancient Greek words seem to fit particularly well; we use them still in science and I tend to love them.
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