The Logical Foundations of Cognition
1st Edition
Published on 13. October 1994
379 pages
978-0-19-535782-0 (ISBN)
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This important book presents seminal contributions to the emerging synthesis of logic and cognitive psychology. In collaboration with several colleagues the editors have developed a landmark semantic theory for natural languages.
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John Macnamara | Gonzalo E. Reyes
The Logical Foundations of Cognition
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02/1995
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The Logical Foundations of Cognition
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02/1995
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- I. Theoretical Orientation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Logic and Cognition
- 3. Logic and Psychology: Comment on "Logic and Cognition
- 4. Tools for the Advancement of Objective Logic: Closed Categories and Toposes
- II. Logic
- 5. Category Theory as a Conceptual Tool in the Study of Cognition
- 6. Reference, Kinds and Predicates
- III. Psychology
- 7. Foundational Issues in the Learning of Proper Names, Count Nouns and Mass Nouns
- 8. Prolegomena to a Theory of Kinds
- 9. How Children Learn Common Nouns and Proper Names
- 10. Mental Logic and How to Discover It
- IV. Linguistics
- 11. The Semantics of Syntactic Categories
- 12. Some Issues Involving Internal and External Semantics
- V. Intentionality
- 13. Husserl's Notion of Intentionality
- 14. Referential Structure of Fictional Texts
- 15. How Not to Draw the de re/de dicto Distinction
- 16. Cognitive Content and Semantics: Comment on "How Not to Draw the de re/de dicto Distinction
