Concepts, Meanings and Truth: First Nature, Second Nature and Hard Work
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Concepts, Meanings and Truth: First Nature, Second Nature and Hard Work
I argue that linguistic meanings are instructions to build monadic concepts that lie between lexicalizable concepts and truth-evaluable judgments. In acquiring words, humans use concepts of various adicities to introduce concepts that can be fetched and systematically combined via certain conjunctive operations, which require monadic inputs. These concepts do not have Tarskian satisfaction cond...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Mind & Language
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0268-1064,1468-0017
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2010.01389.x