Everything is new to us at some point; we are always trying to make sense of new things by using the abstractions we have collected from trying to understand all the old things.
We are always trying to use our best abstractions to directly assessing their characteristics in their own right. Even when we use analogies that is the goal.
I said the abstractions I rely on most here come from the economic growth literature. They are not just some arbitrary list of prior events.
Everything is new to us at some point; we are always trying to make sense of new things by using the abstractions we have collected from trying to understand all the old things.
We are always trying to use our best abstractions to directly assessing their characteristics in their own right. Even when we use analogies that is the goal.
I said the abstractions I rely on most here come from the economic growth literature. They are not just some arbitrary list of prior events.