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Los seres humanos tienen una capacidad única de asignar a las cosas y acontecimientos, significados que los sentidos por sí solos no puedan comprender. Esta capacidad constante, llamada el "simbolismo" ha sido propuesta por muchos expertos como la explicación más conveniente sobre cómo se diferencian los seres humanos de otros animales. El lenguaje es un buen ejemplo de esta capacidad. En el discurso, el significado de las palabras que pronunciamos no es enteramente inherente a los sonidos de ellos mismos. Los seres humanos asignan un significado a esos sonidos libremente y arbitrariamente. Ésta es la esencia del simbolismo.


Humans have a unique capacity to assign to things and events certain meanings that the senses alone cannot comprehend. This consistent ability, called "symboling," has been proposed by many experts to be a more suitable explanation as to how humans differ from other animals. Language is a good example of this ability. In speech, the meaning of the words we utter is not entirely inherent in the sounds themselves. Humans assign meaning to those sounds freely and arbitrarily. This is the essence of symboling.

Source: Vocabulary

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