Series: CSLI - Lecture Notes. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 308. . 2017. 2nd Edition. Paperback. . . . .

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Title: Meaning, Creativity, and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind: Second Edition (Lecture Notes)
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Publication Date: 2017
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1575864800
ISBN 13: 9781575864808
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 2nd Edition
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This book criticizes current philosophy of language as having altered its focus without adjusting the needed conceptual tools. It develops a new theory of lexical meaning and a new conception of cognition—humans not as information-processing creatures but as primarily explanation and understanding-seeking creatures—with information processing as a secondary, derivative activity. Drawing on these theories of lexical meaning and cognition, Julius M. Moravcsik argues that the ability of humans to fully comprehend human understanding will always be partial. In this second edition, Moravcsik posits a new theory that emphasizes implicitness and context in communication. In this theory, language is presented as a dynamic system with built-in mechanisms for change and expansion, thus further supporting Moravcsik’s overarching thesis that human understanding will always be incomplete.

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Julius M. Moravcsik (1931−2009) was professor of philosophy at Stanford University.

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