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A user's guide to thought and meaning [[electronic resource] /] / Ray Jackendoff ; with illustrations by Neil Cohn, Bill Griffith, and others



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Autore: Jackendoff Ray <1945-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: A user's guide to thought and meaning [[electronic resource] /] / Ray Jackendoff ; with illustrations by Neil Cohn, Bill Griffith, and others Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
Disciplina: 181.07
181/.07
Soggetto topico: Meaning (Philosophy)
Thought and thinking
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: CohnNeil  
GriffithBill  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Language, words, and meaning -- pt. 2. Consciousness and perception -- pt. 3. Reference and truth -- pt. 4. Rationality and intuition.
Sommario/riassunto: A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adaptive and complicated than they're commonly given credit for, and he is led to some basic questions: How do we perceive and act in the world? How do we talk about it? And how can the collection of neurons in the brain give rise to conscious experience? As it turns out, the organization of language,
Titolo autorizzato: A user's guide to thought and meaning  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-42675-7
9786613426758
0-19-161966-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910457545603321
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