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Why language is not a “direct medium”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

Tamar Szabó Gendler
Tamar Szabó Gendler
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244 tgendler@syr.edu
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Millikan contrasts her substance-based view of concepts with “descriptionism” according to which description determines what falls under a concept. Focusing on her discussion of the role of language in the acquisition of concepts, I argue that descriptions cannot be separated from perception in the ways Millikan's view requires.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 71 - 72
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press