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

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I Love Language Instinct, but I Don't Find It Wrong

I loved language instinct, but I do take your critique pretty. Well, it's a great book. You can disagree with something. He made language interesting to the general educated public in a way that nobody really ever had before. And if you just softened it up in a few places and got away from the Chomskyan thing and talked about language more generally, there's a lot of it that I could agree with.

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