This term might be useful in the context of the present discussion, especially
in the contest of coordinated practice(s). Cognotype might also be useful. I
think these might lead to a more fine-grained analysis of the more integrative
sociotype.
Thanks John for alerting us to the terms praxotype and cognotyppe. I have a
simpler formula which I made use of in my book the Extended Mind: The Emergence
of Language, the Human Mind and Culture. Words are simply concepts and hence
thinking tools. Before verbal language hominids communicated
Cointinuing Bob's discourse on language and words, the next step was done
by Wittgenstein, who said that as tokens, words can be represented by
numbers. This is a resurrecting of Pythagoras' statement, that Nature is
representable by natural numbers and their harmonies.
It is important to keep in
Kark, all -- I have question about this numbers -- words concept. For
users of a given language much an be communicated by connotation as well as
denotation. It seems to me that the matching of numbers to words would not
encompass this -- would it? As well, what about synonyms with slightly
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About words and numbers:
Numbers are invented to make possible the
