Publications

Publication details [#9640]

Vandamme, Fernand J. 1973. Language, logic and thinking. Communication and Cognition 6 (2) : 53–68.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

catastrophe theory | intelligence | logic | Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Person as a subject

Piaget, J. | Thom, R.

Annotation

On R.Thom's catastrophe theory and the structure of language, the parallelism with Piaget's view, and the impact on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. In this light the problem of the relation between intelligence and language is discussed, and a view on the relation between logic and language is presented.

Reprints

Pinxten, Rik. 1976. In Pinxten, Rik, ed. Universalism versus relativism in language and thought: Proceedings of a colloquium on the Sapir-Whorf hypotheses. Mouton. pp. 69–84.