Does language make us uniquely human? | Ray Tallis, Joanna Kavenna and Jennifer Ackerman
Philosophy For Our Times
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Human Language and the Consciousness of Language
i want to make three points. The first ese that human language is mentally different from any animal communication system. Secondly, that that difference is rooted in something even more fundamental are s stated as what i have called, in a book published many years ago, as explicit animals. And thirdly, there is an abundant evidence for the uniqueness of human language and the consciousness in which it is rooted. So let me list some differences between human discourse and anything that bees dance, birds sing, dogs bark or gemp grunt.
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