Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Preface - Preface
of cases (see, e.g., Gallistel, 1990), and so, restricting experimentation to such stimuli and tasks simply restricts what resea ...
In short, because theories and principled systems of knowledge can function a sorgan sof perception, the incorporation of a mode ...
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partxiv Language 1—Language Acquisition ...
partxv Language 2—Language and Thought ...
Chapter 31 Languages and Logic Benjamin L. Whorf In English, the sentences ‘I pull the branch aside’ and ‘I have an extra toe on ...
means that the subject manifests the condition in his own person. Therefore the sentence can mean onl y‘I have an extra toe fork ...
person indicative. Neither sentence contains an yunit of meaning akin to our word ‘boat’ or even ‘canoe.’ Part I, in the first s ...
It is the analysis of nature down to a basic vocabulary capable of this sort of evocative recombination which is most distinctiv ...
As I said in an article, ‘‘Science and linguistics,’’ in theReviewfor April 1940, the effortlessness of speech and the subconsci ...
statement that ‘‘thinking is a matter oflanguage’’ is an incorrect generalization of the more nearl ycorrect idea that ‘‘thinkin ...
erects the statement on a verbga: ‘be white (including clear, uncolored, and so on).’ With a prefixno ̄-the meaning of downward ...
or event-complex. Long sentences are sentences of sentences (complex sen- tences), not just sentences of words. In figure 31.3 w ...
thunders.’ Hopi can and does have verbs without subjects, a fact which may give that tongue potentialities, probabl ynever to be ...
partxvi Language 3—Pragmatics ...
Chapter 32 Logic and Conversation H. P. Grice It is a commonplace of philosophical logic that there are, or appear to be, diverg ...
used in natural speech, cannot be regarded as finally acceptable, and may turn out to be, finally, not fully intelligible. The p ...
might well inquire what B was implying, what he was suggesting, or even what he meant by saying that C had not yet been to priso ...
that he is brave, though I have certainly indicated, and so implicated, that this isso.Idonotwanttosaythatmyutteranceofthissente ...
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