The Origins of Meaning

The Origins of Meaning
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 9780199207855
ISBN-13 : 0199207852
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Origins of Meaning by : James R. Hurford

Download or read book The Origins of Meaning written by James R. Hurford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this engagingly written and broadly interdisciplinary book, Jim Hurford integrates findings from ethology and neuroscience with concepts from philosophy and linguistics to make an explicit and convincing case that animals have rich concepts, and thus that meaning predated language. This is a work of broad scope and significance." W. Tecumesh Fitch, Lecturer in Psychology, University of St. Andrews, from the bookjacket.


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