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World and Language: The Ontology for Natural Language

World and Language: The Ontology for Natural Language

Paperback

LinguisticsGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0761835237
ISBN13: 9780761835233
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: Sep 11 2006
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.08
Language: English
The World and Language propounds the assumption that natural language is not linear. Linear languages are those in which an iteration of a sign is allowed. In contrast, in natural language-as it is assumed-an iteration of a term must have a different meaning than the initial term. Cogency of the notion of non-linearity is deemed to grow as its explanatory power is being revealed, though the idea of non-linearity itself does not seem to be contrary to common sense from the very beginning. Among the issues discussed in this book are the following: paradoxes; the concept of number; realism (as it should be understood within the concept); falsifiability, a peculiar aspect of the mind-body problem; universals; and other issues.

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