Concept Handles
This "handle" is the image of handle, not the steering wheel of a car. The concept is made easier to manipulate by adding the word handle to the concept. Name the pattern.
Engelbart saw language as a means for individuals to break down their perceptions of the world into "concepts" for modeling the world. Language is used to map symbols to these "concepts" and to consciously manipulate them. This conscious manipulation of concepts, he believes, is what "thinking" is all about.
In his Chapter 1 column, "Naming Patterns," Douglas Carl Engelbart cites language as one of the ways "to augment human intelligence. By creating abstract models of external events and naming these models, we can manipulate them in our minds and think about them. This is the enhancement of intelligence through language.
This word as a "conceptual handle" is to increase the efficiency with which you think, so it does not have to be a word shared with others
For example, https://scrapbox.io/nishio/%E6%A6%82%E5%BF%B5%E3%81%AE%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB is a pointer to a single object
The pointer is [pointing at
Words can also be interpreted as referring to "its meaning."
URL is an expression that quite clearly points to an external object
This should be treated as the equivalent of a "word".
This is an expression that points to another page
The page title and its content may be strongly related, but they are separate
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