Sentence examples for invention of language from inspiring English sources

Pettit argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented the invention of language thesis--the idea that language is a cultural innovation that transformed the human mind.

Engineers and software writers may be under the impression that this problem was solved by the invention of language.

From doodles to murals to blueprints, it is how humans communicated before the invention of language, and it continues to succeed where language often fails.

Anyone who has ever stayed in bare-bones accommodations knows that the development of the modern bathroom is the single most important achievement of our species besides the invention of language.

But the invention of language would plausibly have released the earliest of the cultural and technological innovations that symbolic thought makes possible in the process unleashing a cascade of discoveries that is still ongoing.

Computer-based analysis as it is refined over the remaining decades of this century will make possible an advance in human intellectual capacity comparable to the invention of language, Arabic numerals, and calculus.

Do the sonatas represent an evolution of style, a letting go of old formats, a search for the how more than the what, the gradual invention of languages appropriate to a musical imagination that Beethoven possessed from the beginning?

J. R. R. Tolkien, who had worked from 1920 to 1922 as an assistant on the Oxford English Dictionary and passed much of his life as a professor of English at Oxford, said of his masterpieces of fantasy, "The invention of languages is the foundation.

Rigor is obtained by combining Ernst Mach's principle of the economy of thought with the concept of harmony, that is, thanks to "the fortunate inventions of language" that introduce an order-structure, the complexity of a domain of objects is made more harmonious by the introduction of an invariance (see Poincaré 1908: 23 30; 1913b: 371–375).

It relies on advances in archaeologists' knowledge to shed new light on the invention of scripted language and its subsequent evolution.

Cavalli-Sforza's studies have led him to hypothesise that the invention of modern language was the spark that ignited human expansion.