Meaning Thought and Reality

Meaning Thought and Reality

1. Identifying with words

   • Referring
   • Denoting

2. References

   • Nominals
     • Function of langage
   • Referreing and non-referring expressions
     • Can never be use to refer
     • Nouns
       • Uses to refer
   • Names
     • Nominals which have references
     • The context is important

3. Nouns and noun phrases

   • Uses to refer
     • Indefinite
     • Definite

4. References as a Theory of Meaning

   • Simplest theory of meaning

5. Necessary and sufficient conditions

   • Define concepts using this

6. Prototypes

   • Are structured

7. Relations between concepts

   • Crucial elements
     • Is not amount of knowledge

8. Acquiring concepts

   • Ostensive definition

9. Linguistic relativity

   • Edward Sapir
   • Benjamin Lee
     • Anthropology and linguistics
   • Language
     • Guide to a
       • Social reality

10. Languages of thought hypothesis

    • Cognitive science
      • Study of intelligence
        • Cognitive psychology
        • Computer science
        • Linguistics