Re: RT list: So how does the mind work?

See how the mind reading goes. I read your "useful" to mean
"awful"¨(¨The paper seems especially awful").

Some people have objected that S. Pinker should have published his
genome in the weekend issue of the New York Times, but what´s public
display for Europeans (and Brits) does not apply to Americans!

So how does the mind work?

presuppositions:

     -- the mind. Whose mind? My mind? S. Pinker´s mind. If anything, I
know MY mind works differently from Pinker´s! I´m sure I have more
biases! And my grandmother still more!

    --- work, work, and more work, makes Mind a dull girl
         What´s with work, arbeiten. What an awful little word. I find
that I never work, but DO things that bring me enjoyment (e.g. play
cricket, play piano, -- where play is the code and the semantic
enrichment is pragmatic in nature). So why presuppose that a mind
WORKS. What a waste of a mind (cfr. mind your waist).

      --- The MIT is a tinktank. No implicature down there: it´s all big
schemes about how THE MIND works, and how to learn how it works you
need to enroll in a four-month seminar! Ah for the days of the Academy
by the river, held by Plato!

Cheers,

J. L. Speranza
   The Grice Club, operating at
     The Swimming Pool Library
       Villa Speranza, Bordighera
           jlsperanza at aol.c
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alessandro Capone <alessandro.capone@istruzione.it>
To: relevance@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk
Sent: Fri, Sep 4, 2009 7:07 am
Subject: RT list: So how does the mind work?

The paper by Steven Pinker

So how does the mind work

Mind & Language 2005, vol 20/1

seems to be particularly useful.

alessandro
Received on Tue Sep 8 18:37:15 2009