Friday, April 24, 2020

Footnote cv20

cv20. One could suppose that animistic thinking arose naturally as a function of language, and vice versa. The ability to generalize arises from the ability to project and detect danger or benefit when one situation is recognized as "similar" to others. Recognition of time-space patterns is common to animals, but acutely developed among humans, who have the capacity of intra-species adjustable communication: i.e. language.

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Footnote dgh.754

FN dgh.754. Science and Human Behavior by B.F. Skinner (Macmillan 1953).