Language, thought, and other biological categories
new foundations for realism
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Author
Publication
1984 - MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
88,750 words, Guess
Page Count
355 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3179680M
- ISBN-100262131951
- OCLC Control Number10100958
- OCLC Control Number47011941
- OCLC Control Numberlanguagethoughto0000mill
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number83022276
- LibraryThing770458
- Goodreads866007
Classifications
- DDC401
- LCCP106 .M52 1984
Description
Preface by Daniel C. Dennett Beginning with a general theory of function applied to body organs, behaviors, customs, and both inner and outer representations, Ruth Millikan argues that the intentionality of language can be described without reference to speaker intentions and that an understanding of the intentionality of thought can and should be divorced from the problem of understanding consciousness. The results support a realist theory of truth and of universals, and open the way for a nonfoundationalist and nonholistic approach to epistemology.Ruth Millikan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. A Bradford Book.
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