This work considers Lloyd Morgan's black-and-yellow caterpillar shortly before expounding on a set of "canons" for the central process, including one of "singularity" that encompasses mathematics.
This work considers Lloyd Morgan's black-and-yellow caterpillar shortly before expounding on a set of "canons" for the central process, including one of "singularity" that encompasses mathematics. A chapter on the power of incantations that considers the myth of Isis learning Ra's secret name. This work was informed by Lady Welby's theory of "significs." The idea of a "phatic expression," which performs a social act instead of conveying information, was discussed in a supplement to this work applying it to "primitive languages" by Malinowski. It names "tenor" and "vehicle" as constituent parts of metaphor and uses the sentence "the Gostak distims the doshes" to explain the relationship between referent, reference, and symbol Â– the "semantic triangle." FTP, identify this 1923 study of language and thought, which was a collaboration between C. K. Ogden and I.A. Richards.
This work considers Lloyd Morgan's black-and-yellow caterpillar shortly before expounding on a set of "canons" for the central process, including one of "singularity" that encompasses mathematics.
The Meaning of Meaning