COG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lodestone, Synoptic Gospels, Nominalism
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The mind can be refers to many things at the same time. Language special relation to mind ways mind connects to each other linguistics. These levels are not independent, they interact with each other need a discipline that studies how each of them interact with each other and cognitive science does that. However, they all uses its own language thus philosophy helps connect them with the same language. Common sense uses the familiar to explain the unfamiliar. Science uses the unfamiliar to explain the familiar. Cognitive science is just a generic term, it"s too weak of a vision. It does not look at how the different disciplines are interacting with each other. Unstable position and can generate back to generic nominalism or move to a stronger vision. Trying to get a dialogue between the discipline. You can apply this to many context and solves many other problems, and teaches you many other things, helps you find formulate and solves problems.
