"is the same as"

[Stefan Georg]

>>Language is a social phenomenon, which humans have been able to develop and
>>are able to use and process for purposes intimately connected with social
>>interaction, because they are furnished with certain cognitive abilities;
>>which they are, because their physis meets certain biological
>>prerequisites. The biological substratum furnishes the ability to develop,
>>use and change the tool, it doesn't determine its shape.

>I think you misunderstand my point.

Yes, maybe I did.

> I am not saying language is
>biologically *determined*,

I'm glad you aren't ;-)

> I am saying it operates under the rules of
>biological systems.  Sociality itself evolved to because it provides
>certain biological advantages, and social interactions among humans are
>very much motivated by basic biological drives.

I can accept that.

>In this context I was really only pointing out that language "suffers" from
>one of the main issues I see in all biological studies: fuzzy, imprecise
>boundaries.  There is no precise way to distinguish one language from another.

True, thanks for the clarification.

St.G.

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