THE STUFF OF THOUGHT by Steven Pinker. Viking, 2007
    PREFACE (pvii-ix)

      1) Words and worlds (p1-24)

        [1] Words and thoughts (p3-6)

        [2] Words and reality (p6-13)

        [3] Words and community (p13-18)

        [4] Words and social relations (p30-24)

      2) Down the "rabbit hole" (p25-87)

        [1] Powers of ten (p27-34)

        [2] A paradox in baby talk (p34-42)

        [3] Flipping the frame (p42-51)

        [4] Thoughts about moving and changing (p51-56)

        [5] Thoughts about having, knowing, and helping (p56-)

        [6] Thoughts about acting, intending, and causing (p65-73)

        [7] Smart speakers or smart language? (p73-76)

        [8] A language of thought? (p77-83)

        [9] Our cognitive quirks (p83-87)

        Some of the ways in which the core concepts exposed in this chapter can lead us astray in dealing with life's challenges:

          (1) Having and benefiting (p84)

          (2) Having and knowing (p84)

          (3) Having and moving (p84-85)

          (4) Time (p85)

          (6) Things and locations (p85-86)

          (7) Causality (p86-87)

      3) Fifty thousand innate concepts --- and other
      radical theories of language and thought (p89-)

        (1) Extreme nativism (p92-107)

        (2) Radical pragmatics (p107-124)

        (3) Linguistic determinism (p124-151)

      4) Cleaning the air (p153-233)

      5) The metaphor metaphor (p235-278)

        (1) Killjoys and messiahs (p239-241)

        (2) Metaphor matters (p241-244)

        (3) The messiah of metaphor (p245-251)

        (4) Beneath the metaphor (p251-261)

        (5) The good, the bad, and the ugly (p261-278)

      6) What's in a name? (p279-322)

      7) The seven words you can't say on television (p323-372)

      8) Games people play (p373-425)

      9) Escaping the cave (p427-439)

    NOTES (p441-458)

    REFERENCES (p459-481)

    INDEX (p483-499)
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