Thinking Out Loud: An Essay on the Relation Between Thought and Language

by Christopher Gauker

Book Overview

Most contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and linguists think of language as basically a means by which speakers reveal their thoughts to others. Christopher Gauker calls this the Lockean theory of language, since Locke was one of its early exponents, and he contends that it is fundamentally mistaken. The Lockean theory, he argues, cannot adequately explain the nature of the general concepts that words are supposed to express. In developing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691034001
• ISBN13: 9780691034003
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages