Languages That Can't be Bridged
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Languages That Can't be Bridged
So the question is basic I'm guessing: how can any of the branches of studies truly bridge together and become unified? I'm guessing they cannot be bridged and unified.
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I think this may be true, if the disciplines were exact for everyone. Or perfect for everyone. But the polygon deflates, I think, because of the nature of one study over another, one discipline over another. What I am trying to say is that the image may be more of lines outward.A Poster He or I wrote:The great disciplines of human cognitive expression are complementary to each other. They are apples to oranges in both their implicit ontologies and their purpose as expressions of humanity. Imagine a polygon with each discipline being a facet of the whole. The whole requires all its facets to be whole, yet it is only the whole that is holding all those facets together. So the bridging and unification comes only a holistic fashion, not in any attempt to merge disciplines.
In your polygon example, I think, humans would know all disciplines and communicate or code-switch along the lines of each branch of study. But from my observations, someone who studies forestry isn't going to communicate anything else that they have not learned. If you haven't learned it, how can you express it?
The lines go outward as the esoteric knowledge is learned. The individual becomes more adept at fishing, but loses the ability to do calculus, without practice.
And so individuals, I wouldn't say, can reach a holism. Individuals can reach a broad understanding, but never express in all the various ways of cognitive expressiveness.
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