The building blocks of meaning : ideas for a philosophical grammar / Michele Prandi.

The shaping of complex meanings depends on punctual and relational coding and inferencing. Coding is viewed as a vector which can run either from expression to content or from concepts to (linguistic) forms to mark independent conceptual relations. While coding relies on systematic resources interna...

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Main Author: Prandi, Michele, 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2004.
Series:Human cognitive processing ; v. 13.
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Summary:The shaping of complex meanings depends on punctual and relational coding and inferencing. Coding is viewed as a vector which can run either from expression to content or from concepts to (linguistic) forms to mark independent conceptual relations. While coding relies on systematic resources internal to language, inferencing essentially depends on a layered system of autonomous shared conceptual structures, which include both cognitive models and consistency criteria grounded in a natural ontology. Inference guided by coding is not a residual pragmatic device but it is a direct way to long-ter.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 520 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-511) and index.
ISBN:1423761316
9781423761310
9027295409
9789027295408
1588115267
9781588115263
9027223653
9789027223654
ISSN:1387-6724 ;
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.