Semiotics in the head: Thinking about and thinking through symbols.
Our conscious thought, at least at times, seems suffused with language. We may experience thinking as if we were "talking in our head", thus using inner speech to verbalize, e.g., our premises, lemmas, and conclusions. I take inner speech to be part of a larger phenomenon I call inner semiotics, whe...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy & Phenomenological Research Vol. 107; no. 2; pp. 413 - 439 |
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Sep2023
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