Nirmalangshu Mukherji, "The Human Mind Through the Lens of Language: Generative Explorations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
New Books in Psychology
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Thousands of Sounds for Dogs
Concepts are nothing but marked images. You simply can't have an image for you can't tell what the image is. So they can convey the same concept with different sounds. That's why we have so many names for dogs. The same concept, which vary in sound. It's stimulus freedom that jumps the concept. But that requires mixing images with some that you already need for the notion of world anyway. concepts emerged as words emerged. I'm sure there's a lot, a lot we could dig into here, but I have taken up a lot of your time already. Well, thank you.
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