Dynamic Conceptual Semantics - A Logico-Philosophical Investigation into Concept Formation and Understanding (Paperback)

Presented in this book is a theory of concept formation and understanding that does not make use of a notion of an innate mental language as a means of concept representation. Instead, experimental concepts are treated semantically as stabilising structuring of growing sets of data, which are sets of experienced satisfaction situations for expressions, and theoretical concepts are based on coherent sets of general sentences held true. There are two kinds of structures to be established: general concepts by means of similarity sets under perspectives and historical concepts. This gives rise to a theory of understanding new situations and expressions by integrating new data into established sets of data salva stability, or by extending the conceptual structure in a metaphorical or metonymical way. The theory provides a way to understand what identity between propositional attitudes amounts to, especially how people can have more or less the same belief.

General

Imprint:	Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Logic Language and Information
Release date:	June 1998
Authors:	Renate Bartsch
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	302
ISBN-13:	978-1-57586-124-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General
LSN:	1-57586-124-0
Barcode:	9781575861241

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