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- The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They make it easy…
- When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very…
- Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how…
- An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to…
- Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate…
- One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at…
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