Meaning, Thought and Reality

Meaning, Thought and Reality

1. CONCEPT

   • The sense of some words, while mental, is not visual but a more abstract element
     • Might be simple and related to perceptual stimuli

2. UTILITY

   • As new concepts are invented a new words or new sense of old words given to them
     • PHREAKING  colloquial meaning: GAINIGN (unauthorized access into telecommunications system).
     • Someone who do phreaking is called: phreaker (telephone hackers, usually cellphones).

3. Necessary and sufficient conditions

   • Characteristics and attributes
     • Necessary Conditions
       • In something must have certain attributes as conditions
     • Sufficient Conditions
       • If we can find the right set so that just that set is enough to define something

4. References

   • Nominals
     • Referential Possibilities of Nouns and Phrases
   • Referring and Non-Referring Expressions :
     • Expressions such as “so, very, maybe, if, not, all” do not identify entities in the world. These are intrinsically non-referring ítems
   • Nouns
     • Potentially referring expressions

5. Constant VS Variable Reference

   • Constant Reference
     • The Eiffel Tower
   • VariableReference
     • SHE put IT in
   • Referents and extensions
     • The capital of Japan
       • TOKYO
     • Names
       • Simplest case of nominals
         • Labels for people, places, etc
         • Nouns and noun phrases can be used to refer indefinite and definite
           • I spoke to A woman
           • I spoke to THE woman

6. Language Relativity

   • The language is based in our form of think and process information
     • Expretions
     • Flucy
     • Knowledge
     • Feelings

7. Linguistic Relativity

   • Languages
   • Different ways to think
   • Different perspectives
   • The language of thought hypothesis
     • Flahsback: cognitive science is a interdiciplinary and scientific study. This is form the mind an its processees
       • Some aspects are used in a mental language and describe elementary concepts opered by logic rules making connections to able the complex thinking
       • These mental representations are not figured inside mind as in a piece of paper

8. PROTOTYPES

   • It ‘s a group of categories as BIRD or FORNITURE, not all the members are the same, there are prototypical elements and peripheral elements
     • RELATIONS BETWEEN CONCEPTS
       • Words are in a network of semantic links with other words and it is reasonable to asume that conceptual structures are similarly linked
     • ACQUIRING CONCEPTS
       • It refers to the meaning of a specific term pointing examples of the natural environment
       • Usually used when the definition of the term its difficult to the receiver

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