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From: Shmuel Metz on 4 Jan 2010 10:06
In <20100103115209.2df48cb3(a)efreet.linux>, on 01/03/2010
at 11:52 AM, Kevin Nathan <knathan(a)project54.com> said:

> The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything after that is
> learned...

That's also learned.

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From: Kevin Nathan on 4 Jan 2010 14:32
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:06:00 -0500
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap(a)library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote:

>In <20100103115209.2df48cb3(a)efreet.linux>, on 01/03/2010
> at 11:52 AM, Kevin Nathan <knathan(a)project54.com> said:
>
>> The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything after that
>> is learned...
>
>That's also learned.
>

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

intuitive
adj 1: spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural
tendency; "an intuitive revulsion"
2: obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or
observation [syn: {nonrational}, {visceral}]


From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

learned
adj 1: having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist";
"an erudite professor" [syn: {erudite}]
2: highly educated; having extensive information or
understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing
instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable
audience" [syn: {enlightened}, {knowing}, {knowledgeable},
{lettered}, {well-educated}, {well-read}]
3: established by conditioning or learning; "a conditioned
response" [syn: {conditioned}] [ant: {unconditioned}]
4: acquired by learning; "learned skills"


Anyone who has reared children knows that a baby's 'natural tendency' is
to put everything in its mouth and suck. This is *not* taught to the
baby, the baby is not reasoning or observing its way to knowledge.


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