... commonly used to describe mind as a modular structure for problem solving. The mind is probably more like a Swiss army knife than an all-purpose blade; competent in so many situations because it has a large number of components - bottle opener, cork-screw, knife, toothpick, scissors - each of which is well designed for solving a different problem (Cosmides and Tooby 1994a, cited in Advance reading Robyn Carston p. 53 ). In this paper I will try to show to which extent the mind can be regarded us modular system. Also I would like to emphasise on moments where the mind takes form of "all-purpose blade" to show ambiguity in modern understanding of human mind. According to Fodor (1983) modules are set to be domain-specific innately specified processing systems. They are held to be mandatory in their operation, swift in their processing, encapsulated from and inaccessible to the ...

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