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A successful learner, . . . must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others.
Steven Pinker
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Steven Pinker
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 18
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Montreal
Quebec
Steven Arthur Pinker
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My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
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The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.
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If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks.
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The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.
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