When Rene Descartes argued that we are more than merely machines, his best piece of evidence for him was the human capacity for language.

勒奈·笛卡尔提出人类不只是机器的时候,他最有力的证据便是人类的语言能力

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And this is interesting because this suggests that to some extent the ability to use and understand and learn language is part of human nature.

这一点很有意思,因为这表明,从某种程度上来说,语言的使用,理解以及学习能力,是人类本性的一部分

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