Meaning, Thought & Reality

Meaning, Thought & Reality

1. Necessary and Sufficient conditions

   • Prototypes
     • Structured categories
       • Central members
         • Abstraction
         • Periphereal members

2. Linguisic relativity

   • Rejected
     • Cognitive science
       • Thought and Reality
   • Sapir/Whorf

3. Referential

   • Meaning of words
     • Representational Theories
   • Reference
     • Sense
       • Mental representation
     • Variable
       • I, You, She, He, Etc.
     • Nominals
       • Names
     • Constant

4. Referent

   • Particular Context
     • Extention
       • Expression
         • Denotation

5. Referring

   • Nouns
   • Moment by moment relationship
   • Non-referring
   • What Speakers do

6. Denoting

   • Property of words
   • Stable relationship

7. Language

   • Describe the world
   • Theory about reality
     • Conventionals point of view

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