Objects and Events: linguistic and philosophical notions of 'thingness'

The article deals with the differences of the notion of 'object' or 'thing' in natural languages, concluding that some languages are by their structure more object-biased while others are more event-biased and proceeds to analyse how two common Japanese words, mono and koto, both meaning 'thing', ha...

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Publicado en:Asian Philosophy Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 97 - 109
Autor principal: Raud, Rein
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul2002
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