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Why language is not a “direct medium”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

Tamar Szabó Gendler
Tamar Szabó Gendler
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244 [email protected]
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Abstract

Millikan contrasts her substance-based view of concepts with “descriptionism” according to which description determines what falls under a concept. Focusing on her discussion of the role of language in the acquisition of concepts, I argue that descriptions cannot be separated from perception in the ways Millikan's view requires.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 71 - 72
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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