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A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning (Paperback)
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A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning (Paperback)
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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, thought, and perception does not look
much like the way we experience things, and only a small part of
what the brain does is conscious. Jackendoff concludes that thought
and meaning must be almost completely unconscious. What we
experience as rational conscious thought - which we prize as
setting us apart from the animals - in fact rides on a foundation
of unconscious intuition. Rationality amounts to intuition enhanced
by language. Written with an informality that belies both the
originality of its insights and the radical nature of its
conclusions, A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning is the author's
most important book since the groundbreaking Foundations of
Language in 2002.
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