Concepts as Correlates of Lexical Labels: a Cognitivist Perspective

by Wacewicz, Slawomir Daniel

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

Summary

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, giving rise to categories that count and function as & ltI>concepts & lt/I>. Working from considering the philosophical assumptions of the cognitivist perspective, this study offers an argument for a very productive understanding of the relation between concepts, categories, and their theoretical models.

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Publication Date:©2015
Edition:0

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

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Description:1 online resource (238 pages).

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ISBN:9783653052879, 3653052874, 9783631662380, 3631662386
oclc:ocn972504353
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 Science -- 1.4.6 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 S…