Symbols: Shorthand For Ideas
Your 3-year-old has declared that he and the closet are going to Asia.
Asia, like America, is a concept that depends on our ability to think symbolically. America exists only because a group of people got together more than 200 years ago and decided that this great mass of land directly to the south of Canada should bear that name.
California wasn't America, and then it was. It became America because a group of people decided
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Folksonomies: abstraction symbolic thought human evolution artificial intelligence
Taxonomies:
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Concepts:
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Southern United States (0.885441): dbpedia | freebase
American Revolution (0.793574): dbpedia | freebase | opencyc | yago
Gay community (0.713331): dbpedia
American Civil War (0.654446): dbpedia | freebase | yago