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#146 Barbara Tversky: Action Shapes Thought

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Eighth Generalization of the Mind

In understanding sentences, we can miss a lot of words and fill in. So the mind is filling in constantly for what isn't there. The ninth generalization was how we organize stuff in the world. We categorize, we make hierarchies of categories,. We order things, we make one-to-one correspondences.

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