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Ways of looking philosophy

Ways of Looking

Philosophy

Why are things complicated? Why not make them simple?

Why linguistics

Why linguistics?

What no other species has

ChalkAndCheese

Chalk and cheese

Two interfaces

Discrete Infinity

Discrete Infinity

Building an infinite set of structures from a finite resource

Innateness

Knowing without learning

Not by instinct or reflexes, but between the gut and the bones

A word missing from human language

LinguisticCompetence

Linguistic competence

Certainties about meaning

a-learnability-space-image

A learnability space

And universals across languages

Hola Galileo

Hola, Gallileo

The big picture

And one of the two most complex systems known to science

DogsCatsCompositional

Compositionality

As a property unique to human language

Not part of any non-human system

What was the last word

Your last word

Packaging information

And the sense of identity

variation:change

Change and variation

Speech and language do not stand still

DiscourseAndConversation2

Discourse, conversation

And the Faculty of Language and Universal Grammar

TwoOrThree

Two or three necessities

Without which there could not be either speech or language

Contending perspectives

With respect to speech and language therapy

Some very strongly contending with one another

Conscience and kindness

Moral imperatives

Kindness, gratitude, conscience, honesty, sincerity

Language

Species survival
RichesMuseum

All rounders

Not one trick ponies

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