Language, thought, and communication

Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 7:270-298 (1975)
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Consider the idea that a natural language like English is in the first instance incorporated into the system of representation one thinks with. This ‘incorporation’ view is compared with a translation or ‘decoding’ view of communication. Compositional semantics makes sense only given the implausible decoding view.

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reprint Harman, Gilbert (1999) "Language, Thought, and Communication". In Harman, Gilbert, Reasoning, meaning, and mind, pp. : Oxford University Press (1999)

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