Re: [APD] goldfish...etc.

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Jerry Baker wrote:
> We are trying to come up with something that completely and totally 
> separates humans from other animals and language was offered as one 
> possibility. If we define language as the criteria for being human, 
> that means that any homo sapien that does not have the capacity to use 
> language is no longer human.
>

Language was not defined as the criteria for being human, but rather the
capacity to use it was offered as something that we have that other animals
do not have. A particular person that cannot communicate because of some
defect or illness is still a homo sapien and as such has the capacity to use
language. She did not perhaps acquire the ability, but she still has the
capacity in virtue of being a homo sapien, because being a homo sapien
entails the capacity for language.
   Marko Bucyk


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