The Meaning of MORE

 The meaning of MORE - 

We casually and easily say - more apples, more phones, more trouble, more scolding etc. But what is the technical or Cognitive meaning of the concept? More is more of something. Say, of 'X'. So, firstly, X already exists. And, as the phenomenon - more - says, there is "more of X". Though it is very difficult to define more, one can see 4 properties of MORE :

1) MORE adds to some property/ies of the initial thing. When I get more phones, the property of 'phone'ness or 'something being a phone' is added to. If a computer is added to a collection of phones, the 'electronic-item'ness is added to, and we have 'more' electronic items.

2) Cognitively speaking, there is a detection of a 'match' with what is / has gone into memory (earlier). This is what gives the experiential "feel" of more.

3) 'MORE'ness "fills up" / "takes up" / "occupies" finite space.

4) There is a "location" to X (X is that whose more we are considering), where the more of X keeps piling. This relates to the 'filling up finite space'-point above. There is a location or a space, UNDER CONSIDERATION, where the piling up of X is happening.