Michael.
"subsumption may possibly be an innate capability, that humans are born with a few innate concepts and that a big part of learning consists of figuring out where things fall in this innate taxonomy and in creating new subclasses in it.
I believe that we are not born with innate concepts in the sense that concepts are tangible "objects" or ideas that exist on their own and in the world of ideas.
Following the lines that learning is creating, remembering is retrieving associations that work in both directions it is justified to assume that
"Is this taking the computer metaphor too literally or might it be possible
Is this taking the computer metaphor too literally or might it be possible?"
But there are two important differences. The human brain works with "natural" (analog) wave forms, computers use manipulated wave forms to make them digitally process-able.Second, although both tools of intelligence work by performing operations on data, humans do not keep track on the number of operations (recursions) as precisely as computers do.
What we assume about the operations is that they are not induction and deduction or abduction, but organised in a different way to satisfy our needs to predict/foresee the future.
Thus we have objects as a result of separation and isolation, properties as a result of abstraction. They are connected in commutation, but they indicate concrete as well as abstract characters when though of as one. Thus we have quality and quantity in one (a number) that does not exist in a single form: no property or attribute exists without an object and vice versa, no object makes sense without a character that describes or identifies it with respect to others.
Thus you have an abstract one and a concrete one where if one is concrete, it may be a part of the abstract one, or a whole. Or if one is abstract, it may have a list of elements that are brought under that umbrella due to subsumption because thinking in integers/countables needs them to be closed.
This works with nouns and adjectives alike, because basically what you have here is a containment/containing relation working at hand.
As for the grammar forms:
Adjectives: general / special.
Verbs: generalize / specialize.
Nouns: generalization / specialization.
The verbs in the middle represent operations that result in the following senses:
Abstract: general, special, generalization, specialization
Concrete: generalization, specialization
Note that you need abstract forms in order to cut your description short and void of details.
Note: all properties are abstract, because they are the product of abstraction (one of the recognized mental operations). And none are stand-alone.
Best
Ferenc
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