This is one of the main manifestations of symbolic thought, as it’s based on symbolization. What does this mean? It means the verbal keys you describe reality with aren’t what they point to but rather their translation into abstract terms.
In other words, people use language to represent reality through symbols, words in this case, and the same occurs with symbolic thought.
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