The Animal that laughs
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https://doi.org/10.24310/NATyLIB.2021.vi15.12341Keywords:
laugh, animal laugh, human laugh, emotion, languageAbstract
This paper evaluates the similarities and, above all, the differences between animal «laughter» and human laughter, reflecting, based on contemporary science and philosophy, on an old Aristotelian thesis: that man is the animal that laughs.Downloads
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