On 2/18/14 7:31 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
So rather than "knowing the names of the turtles all the way down", I
got to/had to make up names for them as I met them, and only later
discover that they had been named many times already.
It seems to me the folks that are given the names don't value the
names. Clearly there is value in standard language for technical
communication, but harder for me to imagine being taught something but
otherwise having no intuition for it. I guess that's what many people
expect, though?
Marcus
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