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by tgv 32 days ago
Animals communicate, and it may be primitive, but a lot of it doesn't seem to require consciousness. Should someone insist, it then depends on what you call "a word".
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gowld 32 days ago
Words are like atoms. We also have sentences (molecules) and paragraphs (structures) and more. Complexity matters.
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tgv 32 days ago
The OP means "concept". The author doesn't want to use fancy words or has no idea of (psycho)linguistics.
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