Predicates: External description or neural reality?
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (3):285-286 (2003)
| Abstract | Hurford argues that propositions of the form PREDICATE(x) represent conceptual structures that predate language and that can be explicated in terms of neural structure. I disagree, arguing that such predicates are descriptions of limited aspects of brain function, not available as representations in the brain to be exploited in the frog or monkey brain and turned into language in the human. | |||||||||
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