Thought and Language (Classic Reprint): An Essay, Having in View the Revival, Correction, and Exclusive Establishment of Locke's Philosophy - Couverture souple

Benjamin Humphrey Smart

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Thought and Language: An Essay challenges long-held ideas about how words shape thought and why Locke’s view has persisted, offering a fresh take on language, mind, and knowledge.

This edition presents a clear argument about the relationship between thought and language, tracing how grammar, logic, and mind have been linked since ancient times. It examines how later philosophers built on or broke away from Locke, Kant, and Aristotle, and why English philosophy has sometimes resisted foreign modes of speculation. The aim is to recover a practical, English approach to metaphysics that rests on experience and careful reasoning.

See how words and signs are connected to ideas and propositions in everyday reasoning.

Learn how traditional logic compares abstract parts of speech with real knowledge drawn from experience.

Explore the critique of German and Aristotelian approaches and their impact on English thought.

Understand what a practical, common-sense metaphysics could look like in this framework.

Ideal for readers of philosophy, cognitive science, and the history of ideas who want a rigorous, English-oriented perspective on language and thought.

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�diteur: Forgotten Books
Date d'�dition: 2018
Langue: anglais
ISBN 10: 1330538625
ISBN 13: 9781330538623
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Nombre de pages: 208
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Thought and Language: An Essay, Having in View the Revival, Correction

Benjamin Humphrey Smart

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ISBN 10 : 1330538625 ISBN 13 : 9781330538623

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Paperback. Etat : New. Print on Demand. This book disputes the long-held belief among philosophers that language reflects thought with a one-to-one correspondence. Instead, the author claims that one thought is comprised of many individual distinct parts, and that there is no possible way for language to reflect this directly. The book draws on the work of John Locke, tracing his theory of knowledge back to its roots and re-examining it in the context of modern discoveries about language and brain function. The author scrutinizes the work of later philosophers such as Kant and Hegel, positing that their systems are hypothetical and lack the empirical basis necessary to form stable philosophical ground. Ultimately, the book reframes the question of how language denotes thought, arguing that the imperfections of human language create a need to construct complex expressions that, when completed, become a single representation of a thought or idea. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. N� de r�f. du vendeur 9781330538623_0

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