Emergence of Meaning
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Over the past forty years, scientists have developed models of human reasoning based on the principle that human languages and classical logic involve fundamentally different concepts and different methods of interpretation. In The Emergence of Meaning Stephen Crain challenges this view, arguing that a common logical nativism underpins human language and logical reasoning. The approach which Crain takes is twofold.Firstly, he uncovers the underlying meanings of logical expressions and logical principles that appear in typologically different languages - English and Mandarin Chinese - and he d.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Crain
Stephen - Language
- English
- Series
- Cambridge studies in linguistics. 135
- ISBN
- 9781139551632
- Release date
- 2012
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