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In this video, Steven Pinker shows how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings. Taken from the RSA's free public events programme www.thersa.org/events
Hypothesis: "Innuendos, even obvious ones, merely provide individual knowledge while direct speech provides mutual knowledge and relationships are maintained or nullified by mutual knowledge of the relationship type".
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