“Concepts are not kinds of entity. To have grasped the meaning of the noun ‘W’ to have mastered its use, implies that one has acquired the concept of W. But the concept of a W is no more correlated with the word ‘W’ or cognate phrase than is the meaning of the word ‘W’. For neither the meaning of words (i.e. their uses) nor concepts are kinds of entities that might be correlated with a word, any more than values are the kinds of things that may be correlated with coins. Words are no more ‘representations’ of concepts than coins are representations of their values.” ( Hacker and Bennett ‘History of Cognitive Neuroscience’ p. 127). This claim if true would seriously undermine generative grammar. Do words represent concepts, object or as Hacker and Bennett seem to imply none of the above?
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 13:05:01 +0000
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