Comments on Gauker’s Word and Image.

Christopher Gauker argues that no concept can be extracted from perceptual experience and that imagistic thought cannot draw boundaries between one kind and another. Here, it is argued, on the contrary, that images have extension and are consequently Fregean concepts. Hume’s theory of abstraction as...

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Published in:Analysis Vol. 75; no. 1; pp. 83 - 100
Main Author: Matthen, Mohan
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jan2015
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