
BSP 94: Linguist Benjamin Bergen
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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Definitional Theory of Meaning
Theory that meanings are kind oi dictionary right inside the brain. Somehow you have representation of a description of what that word would mean. There are some problems with that definitional theory of meaning. An institution is a human construct foranbe making it up. It's basically just turtles all the way down. The fact that we haven't had good science on this for most of history doesn't mean that we haven've had lots of philosophy on it.
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