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Many writers speak of language as if it is a matter of words and sentences the meanings of which can be provided by inspection. However, language, and its evolution, apart from syntax, results from a mode of inquiry in which names relate concepts to referents. Naming is used to distinguish objects from other objects.
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© 2014 Morton A. Kaplan and Inanna Hamati-Ataya
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Kaplan, M.A., Hamati-Ataya, I. (2014). The Operations of Mind That Produce Language. In: Transcending Postmodernism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137358578_2
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