Meaning, Creativity, and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind - Rilegato

Moravcsik, Julius M.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1575861275 ISBN 13: 9781575861272

Casa editrice: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1998

Riassunto

This volume criticises current philosophy of language as having an altered focus without adjusting the needed conceptual tools. It develops a new theory of lexical meaning, a new conception of cognition - humans not as information processing creatures but as primarily explanation and understanding seeking creatures - with information processing as a secondary, derivative activity. Based on the theories of lexical meaning and cognition, this book sketches an argument showing that the human understanding of human understanding must always remain just partial.

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This volume criticises current philosophy of language as having an altered focus without adjusting the needed conceptual tools. It develops a new theory of lexical meaning, a new conception of cognition - humans not as information processing creatures but as primarily explanation and understanding seeking creatures - with information processing as a secondary, derivative activity.

Contenuti

Introduction: where has the philosophy of language gone wrong?; Part I. Why Natural Languages are Not and Should Not be Represented as Formal Language: 1. Natural languages cannot be formal languages: the Lexicon; 2. Natural languages cannot be formal languages: the logical structure; Part II. The Lexicon, Explanations, and Productivity: 3. Lexical meanings as explanatory schemes; 4. Key issues in theories of languages; Part III. Explanation, the Productive Lexicon, and Limitations on Understanding Understandings: 5. Homo Sapiens - Homo Explanans; 6. Is the human mind partially inscrutable?

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1575861275
• ISBN 13: 9781575861272
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 350
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile