Identifying categories: The patterns that govern our lives Making comparisons is a very human occupation. We spend our lives comparing one thing to another, and behaving according to the categorizations we make. Patterns govern our lives, be they patterns of material culture, or patterns of language. Growing up in any society involves, in large measure, discovering what categories are relevant in the particular culture in which we find ourselves. Within a few years after birth, we have established mental control over many, if not most, of the objects within our experience. Things are classified as the same, similar or different, and we construct mental boxes in which to put objects which match in some way. However, the number of new boxes we create diminishes rapidly as we grow older. We become fixed in our perceptions, and the world, once fresh and new, loses its ability to surprise as we become increasingly familiar with the objects it contains, and increasingly adept at placing the objects encountered today into boxes created yesterday — (Dienhart 1999: 98) Dienhart, John M. (1999). A linguistic look at riddles. Journal of Pragmatics, 31. 95-125. Re: Twitter exchange w/ Dibyendu De #PowerofSee https://twitter/ddrrnt/status/509763561745174528 putting people in mental boxes by CircuitDruid circuitdruid.deviantart/art/putting-people-in-mental-boxes-144601034 click-to-read-mo.re/p/9izs/10000000
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