2-3 'All' of this taught or absorbed knowledge had once emerged out of the 'nothingness'. Someone once coined a 'form', ‘sound’ or ‘sign’ and then established a 'meaning' association, and this ‘form-meaning’ structure or connection goes through its own evolution in the chronology of language through time - it evolves and changes all the time. If you want to know more about this, and how this is well-demonstrated in the study of language and its documentation with some crosslinguistic demonstrations supported by empirical evidence you may refer to the study of word etymology, historical linguistics, sociohistorical linguistics, and also sociolinguistics. There also a sociolinguistic, sociohistorical, and also sociopolitical contributions to this evolution of 'meaning' and its ‘form’ association whereby these contributions can also shape ‘personal’ and ‘communal judgement' – collectively better known as 'social conditioning'.
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