but the article really started to fall apart when it tried to apply these principles to linguistics, and bootstrap that into outdated ethnoscience. the allegory extends only so far, at which point the overloaded physics-myth behind it loses its meaning.
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Social darwinism is strange. If these are actually the most intellectually "fit" concepts, why are they unpopular, not only among the relevant specialties they claim dominion over but among biologists as well? Oh, right, it's the Cathedral, suppressing the truth like the Masons.
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You're misunderstanding. Whatever concepts are good at spreading will spread. 'Good at spreading' doesn't necessarily mean true, it only requires getting the limbic juices flowing in the
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Sure, languages require internal functional consistency, but so do organisms

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The criteria of such consistency are entirely different. Do you treat the consistency a a logical system the way you treat the consistency of a thermostat's response. Just because we use the word consistency colloquially doesn't make them same or even comparable.
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I don't quite agree with that kind of rationalist argument. I think Englishman and Germans think slightly different, and both very differently from Brazilians - and it shows. minds don't seem to be homogeneous.
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