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=== Quine's bootstrapping hypothesis === [[Willard Van Orman Quine]] argued that there are [[Bootstrapping (linguistics)#Acquiring nouns|innate conceptual biases]] that enable the acquisition of language, concepts, and beliefs.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Quine|first=Willard Van Orman|date=2013|title=Word and Object|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9636.001.0001|doi=10.7551/mitpress/9636.001.0001|isbn=9780262312790}}</ref> Quine's theory follows nativist philosophical traditions, such as the European rationalist philosophers, for example [[Immanuel Kant]].
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