If you remove a word from your vocabulary does it also remove it's concept and/or condition?
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This topic was started by Goliath
on August 26th, 2008. 10 grupies have voted on one or more of the 1 answers.
Tags: etymology, psychology, reality, vocabulary, words
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the condition?
like if I remove depression from my vocab, does it remove that condition? or hemophilia?
Yes. Like if you did not have the word depression would it less enforce it's concept or condition, or eliminate it even.
For example... I seldom entertain the word bored, and often don't "hear" it when people say it. Thusly, I have not felt boredom in about 8 years. But I don't know if that is one of my character traits or if eliminating the word "bored" has caused this.
I can say with 100% confidence if the word hemophilia was not in your vocab, it would not remove the condition, same with clinical depression
consider a head trauma victim who loses key vocab, they will still be a hemophiliac or suffer from depression, doesn't change their biology unfortunately
True. But I meant the topic in a more psychological/experiential sense. I do disagree with the part of it not changing your biology. To have schemata of a word is to build brain neurons. If a new word is added or taken away from your vocabulary it would change your biology.
yes yes
I guess I should have stated explicitly, does not affect your biology outside of the memory pathway, I figured that would be understood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hcoT6yxFoU
I find that exceptionally clever! :-)