For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of… — Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures. — Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
Memeticists have to give empirical evidence to support the claim that, in the micro-processes of cultural transmission, elements of culture inherit all or nearly… — Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies,… — Dan Sperber Copy Share Image