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"language is an instinct. He references Noam Chomsky calling to attention 2 fundamental facts about language, “virtually every sentence that a person utters or understands is a brand new combination of words… therefore a language cannot be a repertoire of responses.” And “children develop these complex grammars rapidly and without formal instruction… innately equipped with a plan… a universal grammar.”" — Mar 22, 2025 01:12PM
"language is an instinct. He references Noam Chomsky calling to attention 2 fundamental facts about language, “virtually every sentence that a person utters or understands is a brand new combination of words… therefore a language cannot be a repertoire of responses.” And “children develop these complex grammars rapidly and without formal instruction… innately equipped with a plan… a universal grammar.”" — Mar 22, 2025 01:12PM
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"The “anchoring effect” occurs when people consider a particular value for an unknown quantity before estimating that quantity.For example,even real-estate experts were influenced by arbitrary asking price of homes when determining a possible buying price.Two different mechanisms produce anchoring effects-one for each system.One form is a deliberate process of adjustment and the other occurs as a priming effect." — Mar 23, 2025 10:30AM
"The “anchoring effect” occurs when people consider a particular value for an unknown quantity before estimating that quantity.For example,even real-estate experts were influenced by arbitrary asking price of homes when determining a possible buying price.Two different mechanisms produce anchoring effects-one for each system.One form is a deliberate process of adjustment and the other occurs as a priming effect." — Mar 23, 2025 10:30AM
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"“If two intelligent men get together, not very well acquainted yet… it will take them a whole half hour to find a topic of conversation—they freeze before each other… people of the neuter kind, like us, are all bashful and untalkative…the thinking ones, I mean. Why do you suppose that is, my dear? do we have no social interests, or is it that we’re too honest and don’t want to deceive each other.”" — Jan 08, 2026 11:09AM
"“If two intelligent men get together, not very well acquainted yet… it will take them a whole half hour to find a topic of conversation—they freeze before each other… people of the neuter kind, like us, are all bashful and untalkative…the thinking ones, I mean. Why do you suppose that is, my dear? do we have no social interests, or is it that we’re too honest and don’t want to deceive each other.”" — Jan 08, 2026 11:09AM
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