The Circular Nature of Laws

Jim Mason
2 min readJun 4, 2024
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“Laws” of god(s), of nature, and of humans are all ultimately enabled by our language ability.

Our concepts of “laws” involve our understandings of the consequences of our actions. We use them to guide our behavior with expectations of possible reward or punishment, cooperation or conflict.

As children we begin to learn such “laws” from our parents (“Don’t steal. Share. Don’t lie. Tell the…

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Jim Mason

I study language, cognition, and humans as social animals. You can support me by joining Medium at https://jmason37-80878.medium.com/membership