Daniel Everett on the Nature of Languag
Philosophy Bites
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The Philosophy of Language
Dan Bites: I'm still really intrigued about the philosophical implications of this empirical research. Most arguments for innate characteristics are no more developed than plateaus in the minnow, he says. We don't need to propose an eating instinct right because if we don't eat we die and if we don’t speak we are not going to survive as well," writes Bites. If there is one message from your unique experience of an unusual language what would it be? He asks.
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