Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence (Live at Mason)
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What's the Underlying Unity in the Thought and Writing of Stephen Pinker?
i've been trying to figure out what's the underlying unity in the thought and writing of stephen pinker, from irregular verbs to world peace. So i see you was very often trying to stake out a midway position. You're trying to create some kind of intermediate position where there's room for reason to operate, but within laws of nature. And that's what i took away from the whole corpuse of stephen hinker. But tell me, what does your take on that? I think that'sa, no, not too far from the way i would see myself,. Not so much in taking intermediate positions, justin find the goldilock zone. Like all the truth
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