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The emergence of meaning /

"Over the past forty years, scientists have developed models of human reasoning based on the principle that human languages and classical logic involve fundamentally different concepts and different methods of interpretation. In The Emergence of Meaning Stephen Crain challenges this view, argui...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Crain, Stephen, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012
©2012
Series:Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 135.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Logic and human languages
  • Competing approaches to language and logic
  • The case for logical nativism
  • Scope parameters
  • How something can be both positive and negative
  • Two logical operators for the price of one