Chapter 8
Language and ontology
Article outline
- 8.1Introduction: How real is reality?
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- 8.2Intermezzo I: Nature vs. artifice
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8.3On construing a universe: Space, time and being
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8.4Tao and the un-construed universe
- 8.5Intermezzo II: Sense, reference and ‘The World’
- 8.5.1Sense vs. reference
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8.5.2The domain of reference: The Real World vs. the Universe of Discourse
- 8.5.3Referential intent
- 8.6The lexicalization of mundane experience
- 8.6.1Preamble
- 8.6.2Nouns
- 8.6.3Verbs
- 8.6.4Adjectives
- 8.7Some evolutionary correlates of spatio-temporal experience
- 8.7.1Preliminaries
- 8.7.2Experience in a one-dimensional universe of linear time
- 8.7.3Experience in a universe of time plus one spatial dimension: Early stationary organisms
- 8.7.4Motion and the advent of a three-dimensional universe
- 8.7.5Purposive motion and the advent of agency
- 8.7.6From purposive motion to causation and agency
- 8.7.7The ontology of causation
- 8.8The ontological unity of experience, action and interpersonal behavior
- 8.8.1Preamble
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8.8.2Causality, agency and information: Norms vs. counter-norms
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8.8.3Context, behavior and communication
- 8.8.4The outer bounds of information
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8.9Closure
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Notes
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Abbreviations of grammatical terms