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Language and Human Understanding /

Human speech and writing reveal our powers both to generalize and to criticize our own procedures. For this we must use words non-mechanically and with a freedom without definite limits, but still allowing mutual intelligibility. Such powers cannot be simulated by any possible physical mechanism, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Braine, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, District of Columbia : The Catholic University of America Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Words and Their Dynamism in the Expression of Meaning
  • The Shape of the Psychology Required for Explaining the Learning and Use of Language
  • Rewriting the Philosophy of Grammar and Restoring Unity to the Theory of Language.