If language-use and conceptualisation are not any kind of mystery I&#x27;m sure you won&#x27;t mind explaining how language acquisition works? Also, why does natural language grammar appear to be mildly context-sensitive and not context-free nor fully context-sensitive? Also, given the topic: why does the brain stereotype, and what&#x27;s up with cognitive prototyping? Also, how does the brain associate the objects of conception with words? Also, how much of language&#x27;s basic machinery is hard-wired? Also, how are lexicons formed? Also, is thought simply language or something else? Also, are the different languages backed by different conceptual schema?<p>Btw, Frege, following Hume has pointed out that abstraction is an equivalence relation: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;logic.uconn.edu&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;21&#x2F;reference-and-invariance-in-abstraction-principles&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;logic.uconn.edu&#x2F;2015&#x2F;01&#x2F;21&#x2F;reference-and-invariance-i...</a>
I wouldn&#x27;t lump simplification and abstraction together, and characterising them both as associations feels wrong.<p>What I&#x27;m trying to say is that your time would be better spent in not correcting every instance of mild hyperbole on HN :)<p>And mine too. :)