[shandor]

No, you got it exactly backwards.

A thing has shape and form and so many other aspects just by the virtue of being.

Giving a name to it doesn’t change the thing in the slightest, and mostly tells about the namer, not the namee.

One of the most infuriating things today is large swathes of people getting this wrong like you, and then acting on their limited view.

[EdwardDiego]

> One of the most infuriating things today is large swathes of people getting this wrong like you, and then acting on their limited view.

Humility and you aren't closely acquainted huh? Also love how you launched off on this tangent without thinking it through too much.

> Giving a name to it doesn’t change the thing in the slightest

Where do you think the shape and form that I'm speaking of exist? I'm referring to our subjective experience of reality. Did you genuinely think I meant that we changed objective reality by classifying something in our minds?

An eclipse is the moon getting in front of the sun, but for some people, it was a jaguar eating the sun, and that was scary. That's the shape and form they gave an eclipse in their minds.

[hnfong]

> Where do you think the shape and form that I'm speaking of exist? I'm referring to our subjective experience of reality.

Do you think people who never learned languages (eg. due to child abuse) have subjective experiences?