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Thought and Language Intentions and Intensions

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Nominalists and empiricists postulated intentions, which are concepts associated with words. Their theories concerning the way we acquire knowledge and concerning language are much more in accordance with the results of sciences that did not even exist in their days, such as ethology, neurobiology, psycholinguistics, than many philosophical, psychological or linguistic theories that are proposed today. Behaviourism and some cognitivistic theories are, indeed, to a large degree incompatible with the most recent findings in these domains.

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Gosselin, M. (1990). Thought and Language Intentions and Intensions. In: Nominalism and Contemporary Nominalism. Synthese Library, vol 215. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2119-1_8

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