Concepts as Correlates of Lexical Labels: a Cognitivist Perspective

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The study of language becomes particularly attractive when it is not practised as an isolated descriptive enterprise, but when it has wide-ranging implications for the study of the human mind. Such is the spirit of this book. While & ltI>categorisation & lt/I>may be the single most basic cognitive process in organisms, and as an area of inquiry, it is fundamental to Cognitive Science as a whole, at the other end of the spectrum, high-level cognition is organised and permeated by language, givin…

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Full title :Concepts as Correlates of Lexical Labels : a Cognitivist Perspective.

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Publication Date:2015.
Edition:0 ed

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Publisher(s):Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Place of Publication:Frankfurt
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

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7. From prototype to exemplar models in nonlexical and lexical categorisation.

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Description:1 online resource (238 pages).

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ISBN:3631662386, 9783631662380, 3653052874, 9783653052879
oclc:ocn994406137
LC Classification:P128.C37 W33 2015
Dewey Decimal:401/.43

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Internalistic Perspective On Language In Cognitive Science; Preliminary remarks; 1. History and profile of Cognitive Science; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Cognitive Science: definitions and basic assumptions; 1.3 Basic tenets of Cognitive Science; 1.3.1 Cognition; 1.3.2 Representationism and presentationism ; 1.3.3 Naturalism and physical character of mind; 1.3.4 Levels of description; 1.3.5 Internalism (Individualism); 1.4 History; 1.4.1 Prehistory; 1.4.2 Germination; 1.4.3 Beginnings; 1.4.4 Early and classical Cognitive Science.

1.4.5 Contemporary Cognitive Science1.4.6 Interdisciplinarity: methodological notes; 1.5 Summary; 2. Intrasystemic and extrasystemic principles of concept individuation; 2.1 Existential status of concepts; 2.1.1 I-language and E-language; 2.1.2 I-concepts and E-concepts; 2.1.3 Gottlob Frege: metaphysical views and their influence; 2.2 Internalist and externalist principles of content-individuation; 2.2.1 Externalism: arguments by H. Putnam; 2.2.2 Common misunderstandings concerning internalism and externalism about content; 2.2.3 Case against externalism; 2.3 Summary and conclusion.

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