It is not inconceivable that the fact that after having led the western civilizations for so lang, the development of the Asian cultures like the Chinese and Japanese stopped due tot their use of a written language that has a much closer connection between object and symbol. Abstract concepts are obtained by combining more specific ones, as in the example, which is cumbersome. In languages using alphabets, there is no meaning in the separate symbols, and abstract concepts can be named at will.


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