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yqx
8y ago
> The US met the goals in the Paris Agreement this year, mostly by using domestic natural gas. It certainly did not. Where did you get that information?
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8y ago
> It's not some random commenter that assumed the cronotype though, it's scientists. However, what is actually known about the human body is often a lot more fuzzy and uncertain than how the popular press, or sometimes scientis
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yqx
10y ago
I'm sure De Waal addresses this in more detail in his book, but the omission is perhaps less glaring and capable of destroying the entire argument as you present it to be. Although it is clear that human language is unique and appears
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11y ago
> why do I read your comment left to right one word at a time? I'd say because the probabilistic structure of language is such that it must be processed sequentially to be decoded correctly. The interpretation of what comes next dep
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11y ago
I don't think any assumption was made here. It is as much an assumption to say that all information necessary and sufficient to decode grammar into its constituents is not detectable from spoken words that a child is exposed to. Th