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There's a collection
of pictures.

Without speaking
or 'charades',

group
similar pictures
together ...

[2 mins]
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What
just
happened?

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Dewey?

... And the rest ...

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In "The Analystical
Language of John Wilkins,"
Jorge Luis Borges
describes a mythical
Chinese encyclopedia,
the Celestial Emporium
of Benevolent
Knowledge.

It divides all plants and

animals into fourteen
wonderful, fanciful
categories as a means to
refute ... those, like
Wilkins, who had long
sought to produce a
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universal language.
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http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
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 Folksonomy:
the bottom-up
classification
systems that
emerge from
social tagging..

http://nouslife.blogspot.com/search/label/homo_loquens
Genesis 2
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So out of the ground the
Lord God formed every
animal of the field and every
bird of the air, and brought
them to the man to see what
he would call them; and
whatever the man called
every living creature, that
was its name. 20 The man
gave names to all cattle, and
to the birds of the air, and to
every animal of the field;
but for the man there was
not found a helper as his
partner. 10
Naming -a different
take:

“Allah taught Adam

all the names of
everything”.
-Q.2:31

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Naming:

Contemplation
and
taxonomy

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 (Pedagogical)
constructivism:
people construct
their own
understanding and
knowledge of the
world, through
experiencing things
and reflecting on
those experiences.
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http://nouslife.blogspot.com/search/label/homo_loquens