the stuff of thought - steven pinker

... up with the original subjective judgments of the linguists. 17 PREFACE There is a theory of space and time embedded in the way we use words. There is a theory of matter and a theory of causality, ... power. The Stuff of Thought is about the other side of the linkage, meaning. Its vistas include the meanings of words and constructions and the way that language...

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