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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window in to Human Nature

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Steven Pinker
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Read: June 29, 2018
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window in to Human Nature

Snapshot of the Book

This was a bit of work. In it, Pinker takes on scientific questions- how language affects thought, as well as questions from headlines and everyday life. All the while contemplating how our mind works by examining the way we use words. It only took me six months to slowly work through it, Dawn Gordon, but I am glad I read it! I am mostly snapping two fingers because of the mental work that was required…