Part of the problem is that Mr Pinker's thesis—that language is a window into human nature—is so broad as to admit practically anything with a linguistic bent to it as evidence.

究其原因，部分是因为作者的论题——语言乃探析人性之窗——过于宽泛；甚至连作者本人也不得不承认，所有和语言学相关的论据都得屈从于该论题。