"Philosophers in ancient societies ba ne ba na le kgatlhego ya ka moo batho ba fitlheletseng bokgoni ba go utlwisisa le go tlhagisa puo sesheng pele diteko tsa empirical methods tsa go leka dithiori tseo di tlhagiswa, le fa go le jalo, ba ne ba lebega ba tsaa phitlhelelo puo jaaka bontlhangwe jwa bokgoni jwa motho go ka fitlhelela kitso le go ithuta mantswe [concepts]. Dikakanyo tse di itshetlegileng mo tebelelong ya sesheng mabapi le phitlhelelo puo di ne tsa proposwa ke Plato, yo o akantseng gore [word-meaning mapping] ka sebopego sengwe e tsaletswe/ ke tlhago. Go tlaleletsa, Sanskrit grammarians ba ne tlhotlhomisa go feta disentshwari tse di somepedi gore a bokgoni ba motho go itse bokao ba lentswe ke ba go fiwa ke Modimo (ka tsalo/tlhago) kgotsa bo fetisitswe go tswa tshekeng tsa pele ba ithutwa go tswa go tseo di setseng di itsewa: ngwana a ithuta lefoko la kgomo ka go utlwelela dibui tse ditshepegileng di bua ka kgomo.In a more modern context, empiricists, like Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, argued that knowledge (and, for Locke, language) emerge ultimately from abstracted sense impressions. These arguments lean towards the nurture side of the argument: that language is acquired through sensory experience, which led to Rudolf Carnap's Aufbau, an attempt to learn all knowledge from sense datum, using the notion of remembered as similar to bind them into clusters, which would eventually map into language."