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Richard Feynman: "What's the name of a bird?"
Yves Messer
A short clip from a 1973 NOVA episode in which Richard Feynman recalls his father teaching him that knowing the name of a bird in many languages tells you nothing about the bird.
Reached for whenever a thread touches on naming versus actually understanding something.
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