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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Jackendoff Ray <1945->
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| Titolo: |
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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| 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
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-283-42675-7 |
| 9786613426758 | |
| 0-19-161966-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457545603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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