MEANING, THOUGHT AND REALITY

MEANING, THOUGHT AND REALITY

1. Approaches

   • Referential
     • Nouns
       • Nouns
         • Denote
           • Situation
           • Events
     • Gives meaning
       • Words
       • Sentences
     • Literal
   • Representational
     • Representations
     • Interpretation

2. Type of reference

   • Constant
     • No context
   • Referents
   • Variable
     • Need context
   • Extension
   • Expression
     • Referring
       • Nouns
     • Non refering
       • So, very

3. Names

   • Description theory
   • The causal theory
     • Identifying knowledge

4. Nouns and noun phrases

   • Indefinite
   • Definite
   • Like names
   • presupposition
     • Focus on
       • Aggregate
   • Collectively way
     • For
       • Groups in distributively

5. Aspects of knowledge

   • In an expression
     • Reference
     • The sense

6. Representation

   • By
     • Sense
     • Images
     • Mental representation

7. Concepts

   • Utility
   • Children´s concepts
     • Overextending
     • Underextending
   • Lexicaliced concepts
     • Described by
       • phrases

8. Concepts relation

   • Relational nature
     • Conceptual
       • Knowledge
   • Motivate models
     • Conceptual
       • Hierachies

9. Linguistics Relativity

   • Restrictions
   • Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (1956)
   • Determinated
     • by
       • Categories

10. Cognitive science

    • Draws in cognitive psychology
      • Linguistics
      • Computer science

11. The language of thought hypothesis

    • Thought
      • Within a mental language
    • Cognitive science
      • Reject
        • Linguistics rerlativity