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ecological validity / perception

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Phenomenology
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We can use a compass to orient ourselves, but it is naïve to suppose that birds do no more than carry a compass with them. They must be involved in the world’s magnetic field in a way we cannot imagine, just as squirrels cannot imagine our own involvement in a world of color. Likewise, language gives us a new way of experiencing the world, one that is known only to humans. Language began as a cooperative adaptation to life in a community, and it involves us in the lives and thoughts of our co-linguists to an extent unimaginable to the apes or even to the dogs that live with us.

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