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Language and Human Understanding: The Roots of Creativity in Speech and Thought
David Braine
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Human speech and writing reveal our powers both to generalize and to criticize our own procedures. For this we must use words non-mechanically and with a freedom without definite limits, but still allowing mutual intelligibility. Such powers cannot be simulated by any possible physical mechanism, and this shows that human beings in our acts of judgment and understanding transcend the body.
Philosopher, psychologist and linguist are all concerned with natural language. Accordingly, in seeking a unified view, Braine draws on insights from all these fields, sifting through the discordant schools of linguists. He concludes that one extended logic or ... Read more
Human speech and writing reveal our powers both to generalize and to criticize our own procedures. For this we must use words non-mechanically and with a freedom without definite limits, but still allowing mutual intelligibility. Such powers cannot be simulated by any possible physical mechanism, and this shows that human beings in our acts of judgment and understanding transcend the body.
Philosopher, psychologist and linguist are all concerned with natural language. Accordingly, in seeking a unified view, Braine draws on insights from all these fields, sifting through the discordant schools of linguists. He concludes that one extended logic or ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Catholic University of America Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
808
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780813221748
SKU
V9780813221748
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About David Braine
David Braine is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen's School of Divinity, History and Philosophy.
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