When you open a maths textbook, the symbols appear instantly familiar. Plus, minus, equals, division, brackets. You recognise them without thinking, the way you recognise letters in a word. But have ...
As the semanticist S.I. Hayakawa stressed in his classic book Language in Thought and Action, words are not the things they represent. Words are symbols. It’s the manipulation of those symbols that ...
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