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203 | N.J. Enfield on Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Not Scientists

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Choice of Words Has a Great Consequence for How People Reason

The choice of words has this obviously great consequence for how people reason and respond. And we assume that their behaviour or response is kind of a result of their reasoning. But one of the keen things to remember here is that not all languages those same distinctions. You know, the little tense distinction that i er pointed to with english, is not present in all languages. Other languages have different ways of carving up the space of how we talk about time.

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