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by ninetyninenine 496 days ago
Think how awesome the world would be if labels ALSO had meanings.
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As someone else said in another thread, if you could derive the definition from a word, the word would be as long as the definition, which would defeat the purpose.
Im not saying words. Im saying labels.

You use words as labels so that we use our pre existing knowledge of the word to derive meaning from the label.