Language: a different use of the brain
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Language - Ilario Sinigaglia
633/1941.
PREFACE
The main purpose of this essay is to show that natural language, when contextualised, by its nature avoids the paradoxes and the shortcomings ascribed to it.
Preliminarily, I would like to put forward some hypotheses on the origin of language based on hypotheses inferred, in my opinion, in the writings of the American linguist, Noam Chomsky, and the American philosopher, Jerry Fodor.
I also propose a simple, naturalist hypothesis on the origin of natural numbers and therefore of arithmetic. Only chapter 8, on set theory, requires some prior knowledge that the reader of goodwill can easily find even in my previous writings which are cited. Chapter 7 dealing with linguistic paradoxes is complex when addressing the difference between concepts and properties and requires some engagement by the reader. My advice is to proceed even if not everything is clear in the first reading. You can reflect and take a second look. Here and elsewhere, we do not understand everything right away. Anyone who wants to understand everything before proceeding, should simply not proceed. Proceed, therefore, and you will understand, if not everything, certainly more. Any text that has been important to me has taken time and several readings. I hope that my writing is worth the effort of the reader.
Lario Sinigaglia
1) EDUCATION
A small child of a few years speaks, at ten they write correctly, and at 14 they can be held criminally liable and therefore are expected to know the rules of civilised life. These are the results of a thorough education provided in a civil context. But how did this all begin?
Darwinian evolution follows Homo sapiens back to about 200,000 years ago and, since we are also Homo sapiens, he could have been our grandfather who, even though he did not speak, did not write, nor use utensils and was therefore certainly much smarter than our actual grandfather in managing with his bare hands in an unimaginably hostile environment.
According to Noam Chomsky (1928), the great scholar of language, Homo sapiens began to speak quite suddenly around 60,000 years ago and he bases this hypothesis on the emergence at that time of archaeological finds that demonstrate the ability to symbolise the circumstances of human life, relatively complex societies, as well as the population’s greater dynamism for growth and migration (Noam Chomsky and James McGilvray,