Steven Pinker: The stuff of thought

Author: Steven Pinker
Book: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

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In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize.

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Rick Patterson Starting at 14:41, Pinker clarifies why people on the autism spectrum have such difficulties with implicational language. This can be obscure, but it has some important ideas.


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