The Emergence of Thought
This chapter is concerned with the cognitive development of the pre‐conceptual mental life of an infant through to the psychologically fully equipped mind of a child or adult. Davidson argues that known natural languages do not possess the linguistic potential to describe this development, mainly because our current vocabularies are impotent for the task at hand. Furthermore, Davidson argues, it is not clear what would satisfy the felt need for such a vocabulary.
Keywords: cognitive development, emergence of thought, linguistic potential, natural languages, pre‐conceptual mental life
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