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Foundations of Understanding.
How can symbols have meaning for a subject? Foundations of Understanding argues that this is the key question to ask about intentionality, or meaningful thought. It thus offers an alternative to currently popular linguistic models of intentionality, whose inadequacies are examined: the goal should b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1996.
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| Colección: | Advances in consciousness research ;
v. 10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | How can symbols have meaning for a subject? Foundations of Understanding argues that this is the key question to ask about intentionality, or meaningful thought. It thus offers an alternative to currently popular linguistic models of intentionality, whose inadequacies are examined: the goal should be to explain, not how symbols, mental or otherwise, can refer to or 'mean' states of affairs in the external world, but how they can mean something to us, the users. The essence of intentionality is shown to be conscious understanding, the roots of which lie in experiences of embodiment and goal-dir. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (221 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-205) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027283566 9027283567 1283174472 9781283174473 9786613174475 6613174475 |