Theo Todman's Web Page - Paper Abstracts

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1. Summary statement of four main lines of proof, 448
2. Subsidiary comment on these four lines of argument, 455
   … (a) Key to first proof: thinking in the medium of words is material in its expression, not in its operation, 455
   … (b) Key to second proof: the ‘principles' of intellectual operation in speaking and thinking can have no material embodiment or realization, 458
   … (c) Key to third proof: the understanding of langue and the understanding of parole can have no material or neural correlate or element internal to it, 461
   … (d) Key to fourth proof: the structures of self-reflectivity internal to language, and implicit in every utterance, cannot be exercised through a material organ, 466
   Note: The acceptability of speaking about thinking and understanding as ‘operations' or ‘states', 472
3. Notes on the roles of neurological subsystems and computer simulation in cognitive science, 474