In Duels and Duets: Why men and women talk so differently, John Locke’s evolutionary arguments are flawed and he oversimplifies sexual differences
IN PLATO’S Meno, Socrates guides a slave boy through geometric analysis to demonstrate that knowledge is really recollection of what one already knows. Yet Socrates then reminds us that while the boy’s eventual answer is correct, he does not understand geometry – he does not know why he is right.
Empirical science often yields reproducible results that we cannot readily explain. Research on language differences between men and women is one such case. Women seem to use language more…
