We have talked ten times of ‘impossible’ now let’s say
something possible. The idea of mastering millions words in short time is from
rationalism. Start from Aristotle and matured by Leibniz, The sample of
practice is the Binomial
nomenclature of
Swedish natural scientist Carl Linnaeus Suppose in the world, there is
one million biologic species, if we remember them one by one, it is impossible.
For as we have told, normal person can only remember 30,000 words during life
time. Biologist have to live in a society, so he have to leave room for some
other words for communication with people.
Beside
this, sometimes a single name may represent different species in different area
of the globe, and likewise, some different name represent the same species too.
In other words, if one can remember all the one million words and their detail,
there are no problem. Since our memory don’t allow us to do that, so we find a
special way to do it. For instance, we classify the similar species into one
thousand groups, then we use the same
profiles to describe every species in these groups. Suppose every group has one
thousand members, and we describe them with same profiles, so we only remember
the name of the one thousand groups and the name of one thousand profiles of every group. We only remember the two thousand name but we
mastered one million name of species. It give us a much clearer image according
my post ‘How Our Memory Is Built?’ that with less words, we can repeat more
times, the more times lead to better remembrance. Not only this, the Binomial nomenclature give us a chance to compare different species
between groups and different profile of species in the same group, while the
normal nomination system could not do this.
Likewise, today we may use the same
principle to deal with the one million English words and the further few
million too. That is to say, after the reform we only learn few thousand fundamental
words and we can master few million normal words. And this is rationalism.
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