Tag: grammar

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, abiogenesis, biocomplexity, biologists, Case Western Reserve University, credibility, Eva Jablonka, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Freudian slip, grammar, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jan Spitzer, Journal of Molecular Evolution, methodological naturalism, MIT Press, Nita Sahai, origin of life, Peter Corning, scientific establishment, Simona Ginsburg, teleological, teleology, teleonomic}

Is Intelligent Design Gaining the Upper Hand?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Trustworthiness

5}

The underlying dynamic here is one of fear — fear of being associated with a movement one cannot easily dispel through evidence and argument. Read More ›

Happy father having fun while playing with his small son at home.

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 12, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adjectives, agent causation, B. F. Skinner, behavior, behaviorism, children, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, Denyse O'Leary, free will, grammar, intellect, Jerry Fodor, language, Language Acquisition Device, language organ, Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini, mental states, Michael Behe, Noam Chomsky, nouns, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, The Immortal Mind, Verbal Behavior, verbs, What Darwin Got Wrong}

Behaviorism Failed Much as Darwinism Has Done

_{Michael Egnor
June 12, 2025

Evolution, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

The human mind, like the origin and development of life itself, is not reducible to merely physical processes. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 1, 2016

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __tedited, abstract concepts, abstract thinking, designators, grammar, human exceptionalism, human nature, meaning, purposefulness, qualia, signals, speech, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe}

Why Does Man Have Language?

_{Michael Egnor
September 1, 2016

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

5}

Both humans and other animals use signs. Signs are things that direct attention to something else. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 31, 2016

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __tedited, abstract thought, behaviorism, communication, Daniel Everett, designators, grammar, human exceptionalism, human language, immaterial mind, language, language organ, Noam Chomsky, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe, universals, words}

Tom Wolfe on Language and Evolution

_{Michael Egnor
August 31, 2016

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

I think that Noam Chomsky is fundamentally right, and I am skeptical of Daniel Everett's claim. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 19, 2016

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __tedited, abstract concepts, abstract thought, animal intelligence, grammar, human intelligence, language, learning, signals}

Here’s How We Could Know if Animals Use Language

_{Michael Egnor
July 19, 2016

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

Perhaps, some critics will argue, animals have language that we haven't detected. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 18, 2016

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, __tedited, abstract concepts, animal communication, animal languages, bird song, bird vocalizations, complex structures, complexity, designators, finches, functional complexity, functional specificity, grammar, human language, language, metaphysical, Nature, signal}

Are Birdsongs Language?

_{Michael Egnor
July 18, 2016

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

7}

Atheist mathematician Jeff Shallit insists that animals have language. Read More ›

The very smart dog studying old books in library

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 4, 2015

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __nedited, agency, alphabet, altruism, animal behavior, animal intelligence, Animal Minds (series), automaton, bees, communication, ethology, evolutionary ethics, free will, grammar, group selection, jellyfish, reasoning, selfish genes, selfishness, symbolic thinking}

What Can We Hope to Learn About Animal Minds?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 4, 2015

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

11}

If we can't even define our own consciousness, can we say whether a different type of life form has consciousness or a mind? Read More ›