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Sémantique générale
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ISBN: 2130441599 9782130441595 Year: 1992 Volume: vol *12 Publisher: Paris : PUF - Presses Universitaires de France,

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Thoughts and utterances : the pragmatics of explicit communication.
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ISBN: 0631214887 0631178910 9780631214885 9780631178910 Year: 2002 Publisher: Malden Blackwell


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Analytic philosophy.
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ISSN: 2153960X 21539596 Year: 2011 Publisher: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons,

What Is Thought?
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ISBN: 0262025485 0262524570 9786613814456 0262310570 1282253808 9780262310574 9780262524575 9780262025485 9781282253803 6613814458 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

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In What Is Thought? Eric Baum proposes a computational explanation of thought. Just as Erwin Schrodinger in his classic 1944 work What Is Life? argued ten years before the discovery of DNA that life must be explainable at a fundamental level by physics and chemistry, Baum contends that the present-day inability of computer science to explain thought and meaning is no reason to doubt there can be such an explanation. Baum argues that the complexity of mind is the outcome of evolution, which has built thought processes that act unlike the standard algorithms of computer science and that to understand the mind we need to understand these thought processes and the evolutionary process that produced them in computational terms.Baum proposes that underlying mind is a complex but compact program that corresponds to the underlying structure of the world. He argues further that the mind is essentially programmed by DNA. We learn more rapidly than computer scientists have so far been able to explain because the DNA code has programmed the mind to deal only with meaningful possibilities. Thus the mind understands by exploiting semantics, or meaning, for the purposes of computation; constraints are built in so that although there are myriad possibilities, only a few make sense. Evolution discovered corresponding subroutines or shortcuts to speed up its processes and to construct creatures whose survival depends on making the right choice quickly. Baum argues that the structure and nature of thought, meaning, sensation, and consciousness therefore arise naturally from the evolution of programs that exploit the compact structure of the world.

Pragmatics
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ISBN: 0521222354 0521294142 9780521222358 9780521294140 Year: 1983 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. Yet until now much of the work in this field has not been easily accessible to the student, and was often written at an intimidating level of technicality. In this textbook, however, Dr Levinson has provided a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is the relation between pragmatics and semantics, and Dr Levinson shows clearly how a pragmatic approach can resolve some of the problems semantics have been confronting and simplifying semantic analyses. The complexity of these issues is not disguised, but the exposition is always clear and supported by helpful exemplification. The detailed analyses of selected topics give the student a clear view of the empirical rigour demanded by the study of linguistic pragmatics, but Dr Levinson never loses sight of the rich diversity of the subject. An introduction and conclusion relate pragmatics to other fields in linguistics and other disciplines concerned with language usage - psychology, philosophy, anthropology and literature. Many students in these disciplines, as well as students of linguistics, will find this a valuable textbook.

Pragmatik : Handbuch pragmatischen Denkens
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ISBN: 3787306439 3787306447 3787307311 3787307338 3787307346 Year: 1986 Publisher: Hamburg : Felix Meiner,

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