Every language has a word expressing good in the sense of “having the right or desirable quality” (ἀρετή) and bad in the sense “undesirable”. A sense of moral judgement and a distinction “right and wrong, good and bad” are cultural universals. The following are unique to humans: abstraction in speech & thought; actions under self-control distinguished from those not under control; aesthetics; affection expressed and felt; age grades; age statuses; age terms; ambivalence; anthropomorphization; anticipation; antonyms; attachment; baby talk; belief in supernatural/religion; beliefs, false; beliefs about death; beliefs about disease; beliefs about fortune and misfortune; binary cognitive distinctions; biological mother and social mother normally the same person; black (color term); … Continue reading Donald Brown