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Steven Pinker Discusses Rationality and Humanist Values

Point of Inquiry

CHAPTER

The Language Instinct

Steve Politi: Some critics of the language instinct say that you fail to acknowledge the significance of culture in language construction. Politi: I think it's not a helpful dichotomy, because languages develop in a community to allow people to share their ideas and share their values. He says there are very few, if any, correlations between cultural values of a community and the syntax of its language.

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