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Are there wordlike concepts too?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

Christopher Gauker
Christopher Gauker
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0374 [email protected]/philosophy/gauker/
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Abstract

Millikan proposes that there are mapping functions through which spoken sentences represent reality. Such mappings seem to depend on thoughts that words express and on concepts as components of such thoughts, but such concepts would conflict with Millikan's other claims about concepts and language.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 70 - 71
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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