Steven Pinker
cognitive scientist, linguist
Harvard cognitive scientist who writes about the mind and language with crystalline clarity while never shying from the precisely right polysyllabic word.
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n. the mental act or process by which knowledge is acquired or processed; the result of this process
Language is a biological adaptation for cognition.
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n. the act or process of computing
The brain operates on computational principles.
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n. a thermodynamic measure of the amount of energy unavailable for useful work in a system undergoing change a measure of the degree of disorder in a substance or a system
Life is a struggle against the tide of entropy.
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n. a pattern; example; or model an overall concept accepted by most people in an intellectual community; as those in one of the natural sciences; because of its effectiveness in explaining a complex process; idea; or set of dataGram. an example of
A shift in the scientific paradigm is rare but vital.
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