A Future of Words: Language and the Challenge of Abstract Concepts
The paper outlines one of the most important challenges that embodied and grounded theories need to face, i.e., that to explain how abstract concepts (abstractness) are acquired, represented, and used. I illustrate the view according to which abstract concepts are grounded not only in sensorimotor e...
Main Author: | Anna M. Borghi |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
2020-10-01
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Series: | Journal of Cognition |
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Online Access: | https://www.journalofcognition.org/articles/134 |
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