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The Evolution of Language

New Books in Language

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The Limits of Language

Galileo thought that he could develop a pure mechanical model for everything that happened in the world. But when he considered certain aspects of humans, and striking away the most dramatic for him was the way languages used. And these expressions that we produce, or that we could have expressed that focus anyway, by this capacity, the argument is beyond the range of the machine. That's where the mind-body dualism comes from.

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