Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

plants, insts and animals ommuniat
Do
anything w would all a languag,
using
ould onivaly larn? Do w think of
and
as uniquly human?
languag
sing and rat mating displays, fish
Birds
s dan, ants rlas phromons. W
and
nountr ths laims aout animal
rgularly
and ommuniation, ut th qustion
haviour
whthr thy amount to languag,
rmains
whthr what is ing ommuniatd is
and
Som xampls mak it asir to
knowldg.
and support that laim. Koko th gorilla,
mak
did in 2018, was famous for hr aility
who
ommuniat using 1,000 hand signs and
to
undrstand 2,000 words. Koko was said to
to
hrslf, and gav us a glimps into hr
xprss
Sh mastrd hundrds of nouns and
mind.
at last on instan usd thm to all an
in
sh did not lik a “toilt”. Koko was
intrviwr
said to xprss omplx motions, suh as
also
for xampl whn hr kittn, whom sh
grif,
All Ball, was killd y a ar. Would w
namd
of th most urious pisods of languag
On
to vr tak pla was a NASA and
rsarh
govrnmnt-fundd projt in th 1960s
US
a Carian watrfront faility known
at
Dolphin Hous. Rsarhrs studid
as
ommuniation in th
human-taan
of onnting with anothr sntint
hops
intllignt spis to undrstand thir
and
on th world. On th tam was
prsptiv
and puli intlltual Grgory
anthropologist
onvind aout hr aility to xprin
mor
if sh wr al to ommuniat thm?
motions
would it tak to onvind that Koko
What
grif?
“knows”
grat aps ar our losst volutionary
Th
and xtnding linguisti apaity
rlativs
thm may a logial first stp towards
to
our undrstanding of languag. Mor
widning
Christin Hungr, a sph pathologist,
rntly,
hr dog, Stlla, hav gaind a following
and
Instagram with vidos that show Stlla
on
xprssing thoughts and dsirs.
supposdly
som rsarhrs hav suggstd that
Sparatly,
also “spak” a languag, and on that w
trs
Christin and Stlla @hungr4words
Follow
and follow th
(instagram.om/hungr4words),
low to a National Geographic pi on tr
link
ommuniation.
Gographi How
National
srtly talk to ah
trs
as study low faturs on xampl
Th
humans nountring ommuniation in
of
with th othr-than-human world. It also
and
pronivd notions of what languag
xplors
who is apal of it and how it rlats to
is,
If w do not or annot undrstand
knowldg.
apaity of non-humans to us languag,
th
what asis an w mak laims aout thir
on
and nurosintist John Lilly. It was a
Batson
and, as it would turn out, dply
pionring
wr initially two diffrnt approahs
Thr
th study, on sking to diphr
to
and th othr to tah dolphins
“dolphins”
undrstand and mimi English. Th formr
to
aandond within a fw yars, ut th
was
was pursud furthr. Dolphins had
lattr
known to mak sounds through thir
n
that rsml human sph.
lowhols
4III. Methods and tools
connections
Making
and religion
Language
6 discusses language acquisition motivated
Chapter
religious practice, and the translation and
by
of religious ideas.
dissemination
Language and the other-thanhuman
III.3
world
might al to larn.
othr
knowldg?
Case study
From Dolphin House to DareWin
prolmati attmpt at th study of languag.
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