On what platform ? <| sep |> totally agree , I don ' t regret the hundredplus dollars I donated to Bernie ' s campaign . <| sep |> Correct , a thing can be related to another thing . And when you have a bunch of them the collection of items can be ordered . We remember things in a linked sequence such as the letters of the alphabet or anagrams . We can call this structure a table and the multiplication identities are called a table . Our brain looks us 6 times 7 is 42 , and then we parse that expression for the answer 42 . Thinking consists of many of these little micromachines that we learn in school , family or teach ourselves . You said process relates a thing to another thing and that is true . And , it is true for many linguistic types of entities . If you want to better understand those relationships you can start looking at the attributes properties of each entity to see how it interacts with other entities . Places to start include Austen ' s Speech Acts and Simonyi ' s Intents . More advanced material can be found in Grice and John Sowa ' s Knowledge Representation . While this is not traditional linguistics it is important because of the growth it will see in the next years as we start communicating in NL with computers .