I am going to assume that by now you’ve read enough of the Sequences to recognize your possible hindsight bias, in your post.
In any case, merely saying that “words are labels” is akin to the guessing the teacher’s password; people have said it for ages (e.g., “a rose by any other name” from Romeo and Juliet), yet most people (in my opinion) do not truly understand it.
I am going to assume that by now you’ve read enough of the Sequences to recognize your possible hindsight bias, in your post.
In any case, merely saying that “words are labels” is akin to the guessing the teacher’s password; people have said it for ages (e.g., “a rose by any other name” from Romeo and Juliet), yet most people (in my opinion) do not truly understand it.