Steven Pinker - The Language of Swearing (1/2)
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Uploaded by palevagrant on Nov 25, 2008
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"The Science Reader"
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
with psychologist Steven Pinker
September 10, 2008
Run Time: 1 hours 02 minutes
Filmed at Warwick's in La Jolla, California.
In The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, Pinker explores how the mind works by examining the way we use words. By looking closely at everyday speech, he paints a vivid picture of the thoughts and emotions that populate our mental lives.
Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he taught in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and Slate, and is the author of seven books...
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Swearing just becomes contagiously accepted because persons dont know how to develop any linguistical merits.
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Laws dont do anything but implie any control, who wants to be controlled when there is no moral basis within any law unless one is being defined.
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To understand human behavior people must read Verbal Behavior and other scientific documents of B.F. Skinner and avoid superstitious nonsense added to the observations Pinker makes.
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It is more complicated then that, but Verbal Behavior explains language and although Pinker is more entertaining and reinforces more cultural assumptions then science, he will never understand language. He will never understand behavior is relative and meaning means nothing. Words are sounds and they have effects based on our learning.
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All is behavior and the rest is naught. Our culture conditions ignorant behavior time and time again, but language is just Verbal Behavior. People articulate sounds, which form words that perpetuate consequences. Many people learn to speak, they have unique experiences with every sound they make and each utterance has unique consequences and this has a unique cumulative effect, which shapes verbal behavior. Words are only taboo because of the consequences (natural selection).
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Your reasoning is fuck.
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Very intelligent man!
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I love this man!
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He's white and said "nigger", therefore he must be racist.
Sepero1 1 year ago 9
FUCK THE FCC i hate those assholes!
UtopiaMinor666 7 months ago 5