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orthonormal comments on Tidbit: “Semantic over-achievers” - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: kpreid 01 December 2011 03:49PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 03 December 2011 10:19:34PM 0 points [-]

Steven Pinker talked about this (at unexcerptable length), from an evolutionary standpoint, at the end of Chapter 11 of The Language Instinct.