PHIL 3800 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Folk Psychology, Hominidae, Long-Term Memory
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(cid:498)communication system vs. language(cid:499: language definition. Phonetic pertaining to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols. Morphology branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features. The set of rules for combining words. Pragmatics language in terms of situational context. Quine termed this indeterminacy (not determined) of reference. It goes smoothly because there are lots of constraints that narrow down and point exactly to what one is learning. (cid:498)when it comes to word reference, children couldn"t manage without an (cid:494)innate space(cid:495)(cid:499) Words in english that the child learns ties in to innate parts of this code of cognition: mentalese the language of thought; thoughts represented in the mind without words, especially complex thoughts built from simpler ones. Chapter 2 language and mind: let"s get the issues straight! The doctrine of simple nativism and its coevolutionary alternative.
