Pascal Boyer Retweeted Tadeg Quillien
Yes! +social demand: people often want a 'theory of religion' or 'power' consistent with folk sociology -> splitting/deflating those notions seems unsatisfactory. So there's a market for theories of religion, etc.https://twitter.com/TadegQuillien/status/1203036901973737472 …
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My guess: the assumption that words refer to inductively rich, meaningful categories is one of the guiding principles that allow children to learn the meaning of words. It is part of our basic cognitive makeup as a language-using species.
Easy to over-apply when doing science.
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