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Meaning, Creativity, and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind

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Overview

This volume criticises current philosophy of language as having an altered focus without adjusting the needed conceptual tools. It develops a new theory of lexical meaning, a new conception of cognition - humans not as information processing creatures but as primarily explanation and understanding seeking creatures - with information processing as a secondary, derivative activity. Based on the theories of lexical meaning and cognition, this book sketches an argument showing that the human understanding of human understanding must always remain just partial.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781575861272
  • ISBN-10: 1575861275
  • Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
  • Publish Date: August 1998
  • Dimensions: 9.24 x 5.98 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.01 pounds
  • Page Count: 350

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