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This volume is an exploration of human understanding, from the perspectives of psychology, philosophy, biology and theology. The six contributors are among the most internationally eminent in their fields. Though scholarly, the writing is non-technical. No background in psychology, philosophy or theology is presumed. No other interdisciplinary work has undertaken to explore the nature of human...

derives was The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding, and this chapter, which is based on the first lecture, argues that one limit of human understanding is a systematic inability to understand language. This inability may strike you as paradoxical. How can you fail to understand your own language? You acquired it at your mother’s knee; it is yours inalienably. You know it intimately, so securely that with a few trivial exceptions—rare words, prolix constructions—you must understand it. But,
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