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THE ATLAS OF THE REALITY TUNNEL

Language in Thought and Action

nature

The great popularisation: the abstraction ladder, the difference between reports, inferences and judgements, and a working guide to noticing when language is doing something other than describing.

Still the best first book in this entire corpus. Give it to someone who has never heard of any of this and they will finish it.

rhymes with

sephirahhod

whyHod as clear communication — the splendour of being understood.

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abstraction ladder · reports inferences judgements

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