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Building a bridge between "innatists" and "social interactionists," a researcher contends that the capacity for language is wired into our brains by evolution and examines the relationship between words and thoughts, the proliferation of language, and the "language mavens." Reprint.
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Science Is...
According to Steven PInker, science is an institution that fosters the instinct to make sense of the world while discouraging the instinct to deceive ourselves and one another.
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In this illuminating book, Steven Pinker attacks these fundamental questions of language with intense curiosity, energetic wit and clarity
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