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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
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- 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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