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    Dan Sperber (born 20 June 1942 in Cagnes-sur-Mer) is a French social and cognitive scientist, anthropologist and philosopher. His most influential work...
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    understanding the interpretation of utterances. It was first proposed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, and is used within cognitive linguistics and pragmatics...
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  • include Sparber and von Sperber. Notable people with the name include: Ann M. Sperber (1935–1994), American biographer Dan Sperber (born 1942), French anthropologist...
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    English. Manès Sperber is the father of Italian historian Vladimir Sperber and French anthropologist and cognitive scientist Dan Sperber. His first wife...
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  • materialist approaches are skeptical of such units. In particular, Dan Sperber argues that memes are not unitary in the sense that there are no two...
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  • Sperber, Dan; Wilson, Deirdre (1995). Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0631198789. Wilson, Deirdre; Sperber, Dan (1981)...
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  • predict, and understand the world. French social and cognitive scientists Dan Sperber and Hugo Mercier argue that, aside from these benefits, there could have...
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  • Stephen Jay Gould who calls memetics a "meaningless metaphor". Philosopher Dan Sperber argues against memetics as a viable approach to cultural evolution because...
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  • evaluated and the set of possible worlds within which it is true. In 1986, Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson drew attention to the central importance of relevance...
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  • doi:10.1002/asi.21261. Relevance : communication and cognition. by Dan Sperber; Deirdre Wilson. 2nd ed. Oxford; Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers...
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