Victor Ferreira, “Speaking and Thinking” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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The Ability to Reason in Different Languages
Language has the ability to represent meaning, it becomes a tool that we can use to think, to reason, to solve problems and so forth. And if that's true, now you have the ability for differences in different languages to impact the way that you reason and solve Problems. So one famous debate came out is m through differences in languages and what's called a subjunctive construction. Theres an x that implies why rain implies me carrying an umbrella, but not x x isn't true. It's not raining. Other languages don't have this, so i think chinese, for example, doesn't have a single subjunctiveConstruction. This led to conjecture on the part of
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