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Re: [APD] goldfish...etc.



Marko Listserv wrote:
> I'm not sure that you are addressing what is meant by "the capacity to use
> language." In so far as the infant is of the species Homo sapiens, it has
> the capacity.

Now we are in the realm of a circular argument. You cannot have your 
logical cake and eat it too. Either language is a characteristic of 
being human, or being human implies linguistic ability, but you can't 
have both.

-- 
Jerry Baker
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