A language encodes many conceptual handles These may change over time And perhaps their is a practical limit to how many it may contain at once
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9. The creation or discovery of new handles represents in many cases real technological advances over old handles
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10. We are barely into the industrial age, even less so into the information age--shit, even language is relatively new all things considered Much of the world that remains opaque to us today may be clarified by advances in language technology (but much will be lost)
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11. It is a divine act to forge new handles from the ether and to curate the existing stock
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good expansions/refinementshttps://twitter.com/YSvechinsky/status/1220442247201787910?s=19 …
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Maybe! Early-mid 20C was really bad iirc
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