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{{short description|1997 book by Steven Pinker}} | name = How the Mind Works ...

| author = [[Steven Pinker]] ...dients of Language''''' is a 1999 popular [[linguistics]] book by [[Steven Pinker]] about [[regular verb|regular]] and [[irregular verb]]s. ...

{{Short description|1994 book by Steven Pinker}} | author = [[Steven Pinker]] ...

{{Short description|Book by Bill Bryson}} ...'s Dictionary of Troublesome Words''''' ({{ISBN|0-7679-1043-5}}) is a book by [[Bill Bryson]], published under several titles since 1984, that catalogues ...

{{Short description|1987 book by Thomas Sowell}} {{Conservatism US|works}} ...

...igm, the mind is a general-purpose cognitive device shaped almost entirely by culture.<ref>"instinct." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica O ...Gould]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Pinker | first=Steven | author-link=Steven Pinker | title=[[The Blank Slate]] | year=2002 | publisher=Penguin | location=New ...

{{short description|2002 book by Steven Pinker}} | author = [[Steven Pinker]] ...

In phonology, a [[minimal pair]] is a pair of words or phrases that differs by only one phoneme, the smallest distinctive unit of the sound system. Even s ...ical rule. Features that are not redundant and therefore must be indicated by rule are called [[distinctive feature]]s.<ref name="Crystal"/> ...

...ve.org/web/20151205074319/http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2002/10/30/QA-Steven-Pinker-of-Blank-Slate/26021035991232/}}</ref> ...ligation of basic scientists to inform the public, however, can be stymied by contrasting claims from others both rousing alarm and touting assurances of ...

...is a professor of literature known primarily as an expert on the life and works of author [[Vladimir Nabokov]] and on [[Literary Darwinism|literature and e ...ur co-curators, the others being Marc Changizi, Geoffrey Miller and Steven Pinker. ...

...018/11/13/0cbde49c-d3ce-11e8-83d6-291fcead2ab1_story.html|title=50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en|access-date=201 ...nesandnoble.com/review/steven-pinker-podcast|title=The B&N Podcast: Steven Pinker|date=2018-03-02|work=The Barnes & Noble Review|access-date=2018-10-05|langu ...

{{Short description|Book by Robert Wright}} ...on]] and [[cultural evolution]] are shaped and directed first and foremost by "non-zero-sumness" [[i.e.]], the prospect of creating new interactions that ...

...ed Ernest Jones's ''The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud'', as well as works by [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]], [[Jean Piaget]] and [[Erik Erikson]]. [[Irving Kri ...=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Perseus's publishing business was acquired by [[Hachette Book Group]] in 2016.<ref>Natasha Onwuemezi, "Perseus sale to Ha ...

...on proposing that the [[hard problem of consciousness]] cannot be resolved by humans. The unresolvable problem is how to explain the existence of [[quali ...131 |lccn=lc92010057}}</ref> The term "new mysterianism" has been extended by some writers to encompass the wider philosophical position that humans do n ...

...the nominative/subjective form of pronouns is used for two pronouns joined by ''and'' in circumstances where the accusative/oblique case would be used fo ...com/books?id=5cNZAAAAMAAJ |date= 1980 |publisher=C. N. Potter, distributed by Crown Publishers}}</ref>}} although whether it is (or was) in fact an error ...

'''Cyclopean image''' is a single mental [[image]] of a scene created by the [[human brain|brain]] through the process of combining two images recei ...heir fused visual field as lying between the two physical eyes, as if seen by a cyclopean eye.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Gogel|first1=Walter C|url=https://ww ...

{{about|the opinion writer|the author of historical novels|Steven Saylor}} ...king racist statements ...}}</ref><ref name="CJRSailer" /> Earlier writing by Sailer appeared in some mainstream outlets, and his writings have been desc ...

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...l, behavioral event is that John desired to have dessert and believed that by ordering dessert he would be able to soon have dessert. But, how can such m ...of any bodily movement, intentional action can be fully causally explained by the existence of these physiological antecedents ''alone''. No mention of m ...

| name = Steven Rose | birth_name = Steven Peter Russell Rose ...