Dear Dan, list,
* Who is Mats Bergman and Collateral Experience..* Next, I will take ’Signs and Limits’ for $400, please, Alex.. Hth, Jerry R https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/what-was-this-article-about-again/551603/ On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 1:46 PM Daniel L. Everett <[email protected]> wrote: > As you will be aware, there is a veritable industry on semantic > externalism as a result of Putnam’s Twin Earth thought experiment. But it > also fits my own experiences in field research. For example, although every > speaker I have ever encountered in an Amazonian language knows the names of > all flora and fauna in their environment, my own vocabulary with respect to > flora in particular is limited. Most trees I know simply by the name “tree.” > > Amazonian friends therefore think that English is an extremely > impoverished language. But, I tell them, I can find out what each tree is > called not only in popular vernacular or with botanical precision by > consulting an expert. Much of my semantics is stored externally (semantic > externalism is compatible with Clark’s “extended mind” hypothesis as well). > > This is an interesting fact about human cognition, culture, and semantics > that is not found in other species, what one might refer to as > enthymemetical semiotics in each individual. > > Though I have done my own searches, I was wondering if anyone on this list > is aware of research on Peircean semeiotics and semantic externalism. > > Dan
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