Theists, What Do You Get Out of Religion?

[Neo-Scholastic]

The meaning of things come from recognition of the ideas they instantiate or some correspondence with those ideas.

This video is fairly long, but the short of it is that they track the learning of a word through association. I realize that there are philosophical objections to empiricism, but doesn't this provide an alternative explanation of how meaning is developed, how words acquire meaning, by learning?

Very good video. Watched the whole thing instead of painting the dining room. (sigh). To my mind the video reinforces my belief. In order to recognize a pattern, there must first be a pattern to recognize. I would like to point out that I see a distinction between instantiation and correspondence. First, people recognize commonalities in the things of their environment. For example, moving hot water from the faucet is the same substance as still cold water in a glass. Then on a semantic level, people create a word that corresponds to the idea of water present in the intellect.