I'm indebted here to Steven Pinker's excellent book The Language Instinct which provides, I think, a superb discussion of these phenomena.

非常感谢史蒂芬·平克写了这本精彩的,《语言本能》一书,我认为该书对这些现象进行了极好的讨论

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And people who have the constrained vision think that our instincts, our inclinations, our basic nature is immutable, accepted.

执有人性受约束的观点的人认为,我们的本能，欲望，我们的本性是永恒的，唯有接受。

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He was seen as a sexual renegade out to destroy the conception of people as good and rational and pure beings.

他被认为是支持性本能论的,其观点试图毁掉,人是善良理性而又纯粹的这一概念。

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Yeah. Log. It's a good think, but why do you think it's log? Ah-ha. It's not a bad instinct, the length is getting shorter each time, but what's one of the characteristics of a log algorithm? It drops in half each time.

对了，对数，这是个好想法,但是你们为什么认为是对数呢？,啊哈，这样的本能不错，每次长度都会缩小些,但是对数算法的特性是什么。

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