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Nature 450, 788 (6 December 2007) | doi:10.1038/450788b; Published online 5 December 2007

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Thought: book review has my ideas back to front

Steven Pinker1

  1. Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

Patricia Churchland's review of my book The Stuff of Thought ('Poetry in motion' Nature 450, 29–30; 2007) says virtually nothing about the book's contents, and gets two of its main claims backwards. A lengthy section of the book argues against the idea that "thought is like external language in all important respects.

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