Distinguishing and Naming

with a mental step away from the original implicit referent, it is now a named object

START 857 YOUTUBE _7fF0XAGaU0 Published Mar 7, 2024

named object

(thing, action, idea, etc.)

See also Elm Timelines

> The special trait of Elm Timelines is that it deals with uncertainty. You're not required to enter exact dates but draw time-spans within a timescale. If you're not (yet) certain about a times-pan's begin or end you can add an uncertainty range. Elm Timelines visualizes this as "fade-in" resp. "fade-out" then.

N.B. Please remember to refer to the part of her presentation where she shows the similarities between English and Estonian words. Context: deal with uncertainty

the name enables us to refer to something outside the original context

As distinctions coordinate behaviour, other possible behaviours, and new distinctions, arise

distinctions proliferate, and languages becomes richer …

any distinction can be the ground for further coordinations

leading to new named distinctions

imported to a different domain of doings is not the "same" any longer

distinctions take on a meaning according to how they coordinate actions in each domain

and all of them can become the seed for a new lineages of further distinctions

Operationally it does not matter how many prior distinctions have been absorbed in any name.

The Process or History is lost as the name is accepted and used.

See also Frozen Future

distinctions accepted in a culture

influences how people see and how they act

which determines what sort of world arises

which validates the distinctions

Language accepted in a culture

which validates the language

language influences experience

"good job!" vs. "tubli!"

good job! – attention on tangible results

tubli! – attention on manner of being

what are the implications for the viability of cultures? (18:34 / 1:26:58)

there is a tendency for thingifying things (towards Reification) in English.