Example sentences for: pinker

How can you use “pinker” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • According to Ferguson, Pinker's seeming endorsement of infanticide in a recent New York Times Magazine article exposes the ethical failings of the wildly popular new branch of science.

  • Check out the "Reading" thread, which focused last week on Steven Pinker's seminal The Language Instinct . To judge from the brouhaha over the early chapters, Pinker's theories are--well--far from popular.

  • (Pinker has denied the accusation, arguing that he is trying to understand infanticidal behavior, not condoning it.)

  • Book -- How the Mind Works , by Steven Pinker.

  • But in his entirely marvelous book How the Mind Works , cognitive scientist Steven Pinker suggests that we can safely posit a taste for self-control without opening the floodgates that would allow us to posit a taste for drinking motor oil.


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