Nirmalangshu Mukherji, "The Human Mind Through the Lens of Language: Generative Explorations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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The Principle of Merge and the Principle of Principle G
The first part of the book is a proposal that suppose that there is some form of conceptual unity in the human mind. In chapter three, which is about language is the mirror of the mind as you said and that's where you explain this idea of principle G. And then chapters five and six together look at this idea of merge and humans and its absence and animals. Then chapter seven you connect some other domains to merge. And then the final chapter of the book eight you draw out some implications as I understand it for the relationship between merge and principal G. They don't are event in his favorite with that end of the book. Yeah, basically just a student. Okay, so that's
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