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— James F. Cooper"Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things."
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I don't have much use for the concept of innateness. The everyday concept incorporates a number of different notions that can come apart in in many ways, and as a result encourages a range of dangerously fallacious inferences.
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