Concept: Is human language innate or learned?
Packet: B "Language"
Pages: 80-81
My thoughts: I believe that language is innate in humans, and that there is an inherent ability in humans to communicate with words/sound. However, that doesn't mean that I don't think society and culture affect language, as they certainly do. It's just that society forms the language that is already there; it shapes it but does not create it.
Two "good TOK questions" for this concept:
1.) What causes society to have such a large influence on language?
2.) Is it possible to understand abstract ideas of others properly without verbal language?
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