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Meaning, creativity, and the partial inscrutability of the human mind / Julius M. Moravcsik.

Title
Meaning, creativity, and the partial inscrutability of the human mind / Julius M. Moravcsik.
Author
Moravcsik, J. M. E.
Publication
  • Stanford, California : CSLI Publications, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Description
viii, 210 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
CSLI lecture notes ; number 165
Uniform Title
CSLI lecture notes no. 165.
Subject
  • Kognitionswissenschaft
  • Linguistik
  • Semantik
  • Kreativität
  • Language and languages > Philosophy
  • Philosophy of mind
  • Semantics
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Where has the philosophy of language gone wrong? -- Why natural languages are not and should not be represented as formal languages -- Natural languages cannot be formal languages: the lexicon -- Natural languages cannot be formal languages: the logical structure -- The lexicon, explanations, and productivity -- Lexical meanings as explanatory schemes -- Key issues in theories of language -- Explanation, the productive lexicon, and limitations on understanding -- Homo sapiens=homo explanans -- Is the human mind partially inscrutable?
ISBN
  • 9781575864808
  • 1575864800
  • 978157864792 (canceled/invalid)
  • 1575864797 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2016029830
OCLC
  • 953918880
  • SCSB-12620998
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library