Once you begin to look at language not as the ineffable essence of human uniqueness but as a biological adaptation to communicate information, it is no longer as tempting to see language as an insidious shaper of thought, and, we shall ee, it is not.
Language As A Biological Adaptation
Notes from:
Steven Pinker
The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language
(page 19)
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