Sorry, that's got nothing to do with it:

Thoughtshapes are themselves, & some are more "atomic", & others are more "molecular", & others are merely-associating.

I have to fight the urge to use "=" as double-hyphen, to indicate more-atomic, & "-" to indicate still-atomic-just-less, to try to communicate what thoughtshapes I'm meaning, & how their forms work/are.

Translating from thoughtshapes to English .. is clumsy-as-hell, breaks many meanings, & prevents entire categories of meaning from being expressible.

I've been told by multilingual-people that what I'm describing exactly matches their frustration with getting meanings from 1 language into another.

White psychology holds that there are only 3 innate-mind-languages: VAK..

• Visual
• Auditory
• Kinesthetic

but there are 4, at-least:

• Abstract-Shape cognizers
• Visual cognizers
• Auditory cognizers
• Kinesthetic cognizers

Each of those is mind-blind to things that the other kinds can see.

Temple Grandin did a TED Talk on exactly that, but didn't mention the abstract-shape cognizers, iirc.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=temple+grandin+ted

She COULDN'T have put the Fukushima-reactor emergency-generators at the bottom of pits, beside the ocean, because she would have SEEN that the tsunami that hit the building, which those generators were supposed to provide power after, would have drowned the things.

Obviously, non-visual-cognizers made that decision, mind-blind to the consequences, obliterating the usefulness of them.

From what I've been able to discover, abstract-shape cognizers are common only in physics.

There aren't many ( I've met 2 others, that I'm certain of: I asked them, because their thinking was so different from the VAK types ), & it seems to be the only place where such kind-of-mind has significant .. either advantage, or familiarity, not certain which.

So, TL;DR is:

using hyphens in trying to communicate which thoughtshapes are more-atomic, vs which are merely-associating, using the clumsiness of English's words & grammar/syntax/punctuation,

so you people can get the actual feel for the intended thoughtshapes, themselves.

( instead of the English-bound approximations of them )

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