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The French writer Vercors devotes his whole novel Les Animaux dénaturés to the question of defining criteria for humanity. Facing the creatures they named the “Tropis” (an easy way to avoid choosing between anthrôpos and pithêkos), discoverers meet with a moral, as well as an epistemological problem. If the Tropis are animals, nothing prevents the discoverers from having an instrumental, though decent relation to them. If they are humans, the matter is of course quite different: they are potential interlocutors.
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Gillièron, C. (1994). The Constructive Function of Language in the Baby’s Development from Sensorimotor Adaptation to Humanity. In: de Graaf, W., Maier, R. (eds) Sociogenesis Reexamined. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2654-3_9
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