paper: Meaning, Language, Cognition

Gilles Fauconnier, INTRO: Linguists agree on one thing--that language
is diabolically hard to study. They do not always agree, however, on
the how's, the why's, and the what for's: how one should go about
studying it and how speakers manage to do what they do; why it is so
hard and why exactly we bother to study it; what language is for, and
what linguistics is for. A mainstream view that has been popular in
the last thirty years (but not necessarily before that) offers the
following answers...... http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Abstracts/Fauconnier_99.html

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question was still about knowledge [epistemology]. But now, the center
of philosophical debate is philosophy of mind."

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