Theo Todman's Web Page - Paper Abstracts

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1. Language and thought do not represent the world: sentences, senses, and facts are not ‘objects' to be in relation with one another, 400
   … (a) Preliminary critique of representational theories of meaning and thinking, 401
   … (b) Sentences, senses, and facts as ‘cognates', not objects, 405
   … (c) Force internal to sense and to thought: no thought without attitude, 409
2. Abstraction and judgement: the capacity to use general concepts cannot be explained in terms of abstract ideas as objects to the mind, 412
3. The misconception that images are objects and the way the imagination enters into thinking and understanding, 420
4. The nature of thinking compared with speaking: words are not images in thinking, 434
   … (a) Words do not figure as images in thinking, 435
   … (b) The unity of the thought, 440
   … (c) The ‘allusiveness' or intentionality of thought, 445