Tossing Pearls At Lterbugs

[NOIRTRASH]

The Ladder of Abstraction. S.I. Hayakawa, in his book Language in Thought and Action, described what he called the ladder of abstraction. The ladder of abstraction is an image and concept used to illustrate how language and reasoning evolves from concrete to abstract.

Ignore this post and stick with the werewolf stories.

For the few others its about sorting out real from happy horse shit.

 

[ColetteJulie]

Question: What did he call it when reason and language evolved from the abstract to the concrete?