Language

=Language=

[Remember, you need to write at least 3 important take-aways under each of the topics below, in your own words.]

1. The need for language; why developing language was advantageous

2. What language is; the requirements of true language

3. The sources of ambiguity in language

4. What does "meaning" mean? The importance of social context.

5. What is a definition? Basic requirements.

6. Words, the abstraction ladder and why we must abstract

7. How to define through examples, operational definitions, and references to other levels of the abstraction ladder

8. What is in the stories we tell, and what stories we can tell; words as carriers of social or cultural bias

9. Does language determine how we think?

10. Using words to influence others; political control of language