Meaning, thought and reality

Meaning, thought and reality

1. Referring or denoting: The action of picking out or identifying with words.

2. Referential or detonational approach: We can give the meaning of words and sentences by showing how they relate to situations

3. Representational approach: When their emphasis is on the way that our reports about reality are influenced by the cconceptual structures convencionalized in our language.

4. Nominals: Linguistic unit which most clearly reveals this function of language

5. Description theory: In this theory, undestanding a name and identifying the referent are both dependent on associating the name with the right description

   • Casual theory: This theory is based on the idea of names are socially inherited, or borrowed.

6. Same individual is referred by a name and by a definite description

   • Sense: is the person or the noun and referent is the definite description

7. Mental representations are images

   • Concepts are lexicalized. This means that a concept is created by describing by phrases.
     • The approach of necessary and sufficient conditions refers if the concept has necessary information to decide if it is real or not

8. Prototypes: Model of concepts which views them as structured so there are central or typical members of a category

   • Abstraction: Central prototype is abstract; is a set of characteristics to which compare real items
   • Conceptual Hierarchies: In this model, concepts are represented by nodes in a network, to which attributes can be attached and between which there are links

9. Ostensive definitions: This is the idea that everyone acquire concepts by being directed to examples in the world

10. Linguistic relativity: It provides an explanation for a common experience when dealing with different languages