Semantic Perception: How the Illusion of a Common Language Arises and Persists

by Jody Azzouni

Book Overview

Jody Azzouni argues that we involuntarily experience certain physical items, certain products of human actions, and certain human actions themselves as having meaning-properties. We understand these items as possessing meaning or as having (or being capable of having) truth values. For example, a sign on a door reading "Drinks Inside" strikes native English speakers as referring to liquids in the room behind the door. The sign has a truth value--if...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199967407
• ISBN13: 9780199967407
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"