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== Theory and background == | == Theory and background == | ||
The underlying assumptions behind Hugwis are (a) an ''a priori'' conlang that is made from scratch reflects how the creator organizes and categorizes concepts mentally, (b) | The underlying assumptions behind Hugwis are (a) an ''a priori'' conlang that is made from scratch reflects how the creator organizes and categorizes concepts mentally, (b) I can gain understanding of my own mental model by using itself to study itself, and (c) this mental model is relatively stable over time. | ||
Since I was a kid, the way I speak has often confused people, even when I was trying to be normal. I have often felt a need to make up new words, to describe things better or just for fun. When I was a teenager I started to make up my own syntax too, like *"the flickering property of the lights" for "the lights keep flickering", or "than better one" for "better than the other". In time, I started to realize I organize concepts in a peculiar fashion, and I spent some time seeking the reason why. | Since I was a kid, the way I speak has often confused people, even when I was trying to be normal. I have often felt a need to make up new words, to describe things better or just for fun. When I was a teenager I started to make up my own syntax too, like *"the flickering property of the lights" for "the lights keep flickering", or "than better one" for "better than the other". In time, I started to realize I organize concepts in a peculiar fashion, and I spent some time seeking the reason why. | ||
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The principles of Hugwis are redundancy, abstraction, systemization, chaos/ambiguity, preservation of detail, and flexibility/extensibility. | The principles of Hugwis are redundancy, abstraction, systemization, chaos/ambiguity, preservation of detail, and flexibility/extensibility. | ||
=== Basic structure === | |||
The basic unit of Hugwis is the ''concept''. Information stored in the brain is thought to be encoded in a highly interconnected, mostly directional graph of concepts, and each concept is a node that links to other nodes. | |||
A concept may be simple, like the built-in concrete nouns, counting numbers, or complex, with its own tree structure. | |||
There are several types of attributes a complex concept hold: | |||
* DEFAULT (usually hidden), list of concepts that link to and link from the current one; | |||
* CORE attributes define the concept; | |||
* EVAL attributes are evaluated from other attributes of the same concept; | |||
* An attribute may have the value of the concept itself, or nothing. This nothing is just an ordinary abstract concept that I intuitively understand, and need not be described with words. Here, the nothing ''does'' noth. | |||
== Design choices of Hwnic == | == Design choices of Hwnic == | ||