Meaning, Thought and Reality

Meaning, Thought and Reality

1. Referring is the action of identifying words

   • Denote is used for the relationship between linguistic expression
   • Refer is used for picking out entities in the world

2. Reference is the referential possibilities of names and noun phrases

   • Nominals
   • Constant reference (Pacific Ocean)
   • Variable Reference (I, You, She, Etc.)
   • Referent
   • Detonation
   • Extension

3. Description Theory is where a name is taken as a label for knowledge about the referent

   • Caused Theory names are usually inherited, or borrowed.
     • Grounding
     • Natural Kinds
     • Presupposition
     • Distributively
     • Colectively

4. Lexicalized

5. Underextending

6. Necessary and Sufficient conditions

7. Prototypes

8. Conceptual hierarchies a mode; where concepts are represented by nodes in a network

   • Inclusion inherits attributes from a superordinate mode
   • Ostensive definition

9. Linguistic Relativity translating between languages have often remarked on the lack of fit words between words in two languages

   • Cognitive Science
   • Language of thought
   • Mentalese
   • Idiolism