A user's guide to thought and meaning / Ray Jackendoff ; with illustrations by Neil Cohn, Bill Griffith, and others.

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Jackendoff, Ray, 1945-

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TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191619663
0191619663
9786613426758
661342675X
019969320X
9780199693207
0191620688
9780191620683
1283426757
9781283426756

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181.07 181/.07

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B105.M4 J33 2012eb

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Contents:

pt. 1. Language, words, and meaning -- pt. 2. Consciousness and perception -- pt. 3. Reference and truth -- pt. 4. Rationality and intuition.

Summary: A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adaptive and complicated than they're commonly given credit for, and he is led to some basic questions: How do we perceive and act in the world? How do we talk about it? And how can the collection of neurons in the brain give rise to conscious experience? As it turns out, the organization of language,

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Language, words, and meaning -- pt. 2. Consciousness and perception -- pt. 3. Reference and truth -- pt. 4. Rationality and intuition.

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adaptive and complicated than they're commonly given credit for, and he is led to some basic questions: How do we perceive and act in the world? How do we talk about it? And how can the collection of neurons in the brain give rise to conscious experience? As it turns out, the organization of language,

English.

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