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Introduction: Thought as Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2010

John Preston
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Western philosophy has a long-standing interest in the relationship between thought and language. This is not least because language use and our mental capacities are so central to our human self-conception, as well as to the ways in which we have tried to think about other beings. Retrospectively, it is possible to identify certain broad traditions in the philosophical study of thought and language, traditions which also have their representatives in psychology and linguistics. In this introduction I shall focus on one such tradition, the one sometimes known as ‘lingualism ’, in so far as it bears on the papers brought together in this volume.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 42 , March 1997 , pp. 1 - 14
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1997

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