Language

Day 1. The need for language; why developing language was advantageous

Day 2. What language is; the requirements of true language

Day 3. The sources of ambiguity in language

Day 4. What does "meaning" mean? The importance of social context.

Day 5. What is a definition? Basic requirements.

Day 6. Words, the abstraction ladder and why we must abstract

Day 7. How to define terms through examples, operational definitions, and references to other levels of the abstraction ladder

Day 8. What is in the stories we tell, and what stories we can tell; words as carriers of social or cultural bias

Day 9. Does language determine how we think?

Day 10. Using words to influence others; political control of language