思想本质
The Stuff of Thought
Steven Pinker · 初版 2007 年
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为什么值得读
- 深入剖析语言背后的抽象认知框架
- 有力驳斥了语言决定思维的流行假说
- 解答常见语法规则背后的认知机理
The New York Times 畅销书作家 Steven Pinker 兼具罕见的科研天赋与语言文采，能够深入浅出地阐释深刻而强有力的思想。他以往的著作——包括入围普利策奖决选的 The Blank Slate——让他备受瞩目，跃升为当今最重要且最受欢迎的科普作家之一。如今，在 The Stuff of Thought 中，Pinker 将他最谙熟的两大领域融为一体：语言与人性。其成果便是对我们的词汇如何揭示我们的天性展开的引人入胜的审视。说脏话揭示了我们怎样的情绪？为什么
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……长度，而且通常每句话之间甚至几乎存在一对一的映射关系。对于任何对语言和思维之间的关系感兴趣的人，我推荐一本非常棒的书——史蒂芬·平克（Steven Pinker）的《思想本质》（The Stuff of Thought）。其中有一整章专门用来讨论萨丕尔-沃尔夫假说（Sapir-Whorf hypothesis），更准确地说，是用来驳斥它的。
…length and typically there's even an almost one-to-one mapping between individual sentences. To anyone interested in the relations between the language and thinking, I recommend an excellent book "The Stuff of Thought" by Steven Pinker. One chapter is devoted to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, more specifically, to debunking it.
语言会影响你的思维方式，这一点毋庸置疑。恰恰相反，这是一个陈旧乏味的观点，早就被反驳了一遍又一遍（比如参见史蒂芬·平克《思想本质》第三章），可它就是死不透，因为有些人就是觉得它太有吸引力了舍不得放弃。
Language affects how you think, there is no question about that. Quite to the contrary, it is an old and tired notion which has been refuted and refuted and refuted (see, e.g., the third chapter of "The Stuff of Thought" by Steven Pinker) and yet it can't die because some people just find it too appealing to let go.
史蒂芬·平克在《思想本质》（The Stuff of Thought）中相当有说服力地（在我看来）粉碎了萨丕尔-沃尔夫假说（S-W）。他认为存在一个抽象的语言学框架，语言中的概念都是构建在其之上的，比如内容处所格（content-locatives）、容器处所格（container-locatives）、致使词（causatives）等等。强烈推荐……
Steven Pinker pretty convincingly demolished S-W (for me) in "The Stuff of Thought". He argues that there is an abstract linguistic framework upon which the concepts in a language are built, things like content-locatives, container-locatives, causatives, and much more. Recommended…
……给 Cyberdyne Customers 提了个问题。*I ask a question to Cyberdyne Customers. 为什么最后一种形式是不对的？这里适用了什么语法规则？如果你对这类问题感兴趣，我推荐史蒂芬·平克的《思想本质》（The Stuff of Thought，http://www.amazon.com/Stuff-Thought-Language-Window-Nature/d... ）
…Customers a question. *I ask a question to Cyberdyne Customers. Why is the last form incorrect? What rules apply here? If you're interested in questions like this, I can recommend Steven Pinker's "The Stuff of Thought" ( http://www.amazon.com/Stuff-Thought-Language-Window-Nature/d... )
……与外部世界的交互，比如明/暗、上/下等。这当然也算其中一部分。我读过莱考夫（Lakoff），非常赞同你向对这块感兴趣的人推荐他。针对这个主题，我还推荐平克的《思想本质》（Stuff of Thought，http://www.amazon.com/dp/0143114247/）。AI 绝不可能诞生自数字机器——如果你把 AI 局限在人类认知范畴内，确实如此。但我不觉得克隆人类是任何人的目标……
…interactions with the world such as light/dark, up/down, etc. That certainly seems part of it. I've read Lakoff, and second your recommendation to anyone interested in this stuff. I'd also recommend Pinker's "Stuff of Thought" (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0143114247/) for this topic. AI will never come from digital machines If you consider AI as limited to human cognition, sure. I don't think it's anyone's goal to clone human…
史蒂芬·平克在他的书里讨论过这个话题：-《语言本能》（The Language Instinct）进行了深入探讨 -《思想本质》（The Stuff of Thought），他在里面几乎是直接回应了这篇文章。在这点上我绝对支持他的观点，虽然这事太复杂没法在这里细聊，但他写得太精彩了，不得不推荐……
Steven Pinker discusses this topic in his books: - "The Language Instinct" covers it in detail - "The Stuff of Thought", in which he pretty much responds directly to this article. I definitely side with his views on this one, though it's too complicated to discuss here, and he does too good a job not to recommend the…