Steven Pinker Quotes

Because A Lake Is Conceived As Having Only Two Primary Dimensions, You Can't Swim Inside The Lake, Though That Would Seem To Make Geometric Sense. Lederer Asks Why We Say That Something Can Be Underwater Or Underground Even Though It's Surrounded By, Not Beneath, The Water Or The Ground. It's Because Water And Ground Are Conceived As 2-D Surfaces, Not 3-D Volumes, Geologically Improbable Though That Is. The Dimensionality Of An Object Is Also The Aspect Of Its Geometry That Modifiers "see" When They Combine With It In A Phrase. A Big CD, For Example, Has To Have An Above-average Diameter, Not An Above-standard Thickness (that Could Only Be A Thick CD), And A Big Lake Has To Be One With An Unusually Large Area, Regardless Of Its Depth; It Can't Be A Few Yards Wide And A Mile Deep.

Steven Pinker Quotes: Because A Lake Is Conceived As Having Only Two Primary Dimensions, You Can't Swim Inside The Lake, Though That Would

Steven Pinker Quotes: Because A Lake Is Conceived As Having Only Two Primary Dimensions, You Can't Swim Inside The Lake, Though That Would

Steven Pinker Quotes: Because A Lake Is Conceived As Having Only Two Primary Dimensions, You Can't Swim Inside The Lake, Though That Would

Steven Pinker Quotes: Because A Lake Is Conceived As Having Only Two Primary Dimensions, You Can't Swim Inside The Lake, Though That Would

Steven Pinker Quotes: Because A Lake Is Conceived As Having Only Two Primary Dimensions, You Can't Swim Inside The Lake, Though That Would

Steven Pinker Quotes: Because A Lake Is Conceived As Having Only Two Primary Dimensions, You Can't Swim Inside The Lake, Though That Would

Steven Pinker Quotes: Because A Lake Is Conceived As Having Only Two Primary Dimensions, You Can't Swim Inside The Lake, Though That Would

Steven Pinker Quotes: Because A Lake Is Conceived As Having Only Two Primary Dimensions, You Can't Swim Inside The Lake, Though That Would

Steven Pinker Quotes: Because A Lake Is Conceived As Having Only Two Primary Dimensions, You Can't Swim Inside The Lake, Though That Would

Steven Pinker Quotes: Because A Lake Is Conceived As Having Only Two Primary Dimensions, You Can't Swim Inside The Lake, Though That Would

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