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Minds without Meanings: An Essay on the Content of Concepts (MIT Press) by Jerry A. Fodor, Zenon W. Pylyshyn is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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Two prominent thinkers argue for the possibility of a theory of concepts that takes reference to be concepts' sole semantic property. In cognitive science, conceptual content is frequently understood as the “meaning” of a mental representation. This position raises largely empirical questions about what concepts are, what form they take in mental processes, and how they connect to the world they are about. In Minds without Meaning, Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn review some of the proposals put
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- Author
- Jerry A. Fodor, Zenon W. Pylyshyn
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262529815
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Science, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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