WE ARE THE FRAMERS

To think is to frame. When you represent what you’re thinking, you establish that as your first reference which means it will be your frame-of-reference from that time onward. To give something a name identifies it and puts it within that frame. When an infant does this, the child begins to populate his world—“toy, doggie, mommy, daddy, eye, toes.” In this way we create the meanings that become the World that we live within. As we name things, we create a vocabulary of terms. This answers the most fundamental question, “What is X?” After that come more complex meanings: “Why is X?” “What is X for?” “Where does X come from?” “What causes X?”