The Stuff of Thought

The Stuff of Thought

2007 • 499 pages

Ratings7

Average rating3.3

15

I like neuroscience, linguistics, and Steven Pinker, but I have apparently reached my limit. This is the dullest book I have ever read on my own time. I think the exact moment my brain melted forever was when Pinker spent several paragraphs explaining that actually, chicken can mean an animal or a food, because depending on the context, you could be talking about the bird known as a chicken OR a food in which you eat that is comprised of that bird and -

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP


Anyways I DNF'd

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