NEURONS, CONCEPTS, AND CONNECTIONS IN THINKING: A Neo-Traditional View of Concepts and Meaning
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This article provides a neurological analysis of the different kinds of connections that exist among the items that constitute our active thoughts. The analysis is based throughout on the premise that our thoughts are brought about by the activations of dedicated neuron groups. By this analysis we are able to clarify simple puzzles about thinking, display how sensory perception, memory, and language are related to concepts, explicate the nature of simple and complex concepts and conceptual representations, and demonstrate the extemporaneous structure of our propositional thoughts, together with the dynamic conditions that form their constitution. Copyright © 09/2000, 05/2003, 1/2008, 1/2009. All rights reserved. This article is the intellectual property of the author. No part of this article may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author's written permission, except that the reader is allowed to download this article and print one copy for the sole purpose of studying it.
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