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Stenka25 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
The paraphrasing of words of main idea
the paraphrasing of words of main idea
The passage below is from ‘the Blank Slate’ by Steven Pinker.
http://evolbiol.ru/blankslate/blankslate.htm
The lean genome, connectionism, and extreme plasticity are the Blank Slate's last stand.
The point of this chapter is that these claims are not vindications of the doctrine of the Blank Slate but products of the Blank Slate. Many people (including a few scientists) have selectively read the evidence, sometimes in bizarre ways, to fit with a prior belief that the mind cannot possibly have any innate structure, or with simplistic notions of how innate structure, if it did exist, would be encoded in the genes and develop in the brain.
I should say at the outset that I find these latest-and-best blank-slate theories highly implausible — indeed, barely coherent.
In this passage the four underlined parts are the various representations of the same idea.
Am I right?
(I’m not sure about ‘the evidence,’ though. But otherwise I cannot make out what ‘the evidence’ refers to in this context.)
(And is the title of my question properly written? If not, what do you say this kind of stating the same idea in various representations?)
Regards.
The passage below is from ‘the Blank Slate’ by Steven Pinker.
http://evolbiol.ru/blankslate/blankslate.htm
The lean genome, connectionism, and extreme plasticity are the Blank Slate's last stand.
The point of this chapter is that these claims are not vindications of the doctrine of the Blank Slate but products of the Blank Slate. Many people (including a few scientists) have selectively read the evidence, sometimes in bizarre ways, to fit with a prior belief that the mind cannot possibly have any innate structure, or with simplistic notions of how innate structure, if it did exist, would be encoded in the genes and develop in the brain.
I should say at the outset that I find these latest-and-best blank-slate theories highly implausible — indeed, barely coherent.
In this passage the four underlined parts are the various representations of the same idea.
Am I right?
(I’m not sure about ‘the evidence,’ though. But otherwise I cannot make out what ‘the evidence’ refers to in this context.)
(And is the title of my question properly written? If not, what do you say this kind of stating the same idea in various representations?)
Regards.
Top answer
"the evidence" refers generally to any evidence relating to the matter being discussed. The other three underlined parts, which I think do represent the same thing, refer to claims/theories, not to evidence.
- "the evidence" refers generally to any evidence relating to the matter being discussed.
- The other three underlined parts, which I think do represent the same thing, refer to claims/theories, not to evidence.
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"the evidence" refers generally to any evidence relating to the matter being discussed. The other three underlined parts, which I think do represent the same thing, refer to claims/theories, not to evidence.
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Thanks a lot, GPY.
But I still have a question mark in me about the evidence of WHAT.
Can you fill out that WHAT for me?
(Am I too picky in this question?)
Regards.
STILL IN THE DARK.
But I still have a question mark in me about the evidence of WHAT.
Can you fill out that WHAT for me?
(Am I too picky in this question?)
Regards.
STILL IN THE DARK.
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Stenka25But I still have a question mark in me about the evidence of WHAT.Any evidence that might help one establish whether the theories under dicussion are correct or not.
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