Concepts As Correlates Of Lexical Labels: A Cognitivist Perspective (dis/continuities)
by Slawomir Daniel Wacewicz /
2015 / English / PDF
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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
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. Whilecategorisation
categorisation 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
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 asconcepts
concepts. 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.
. 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.
