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  1. Abstract Objects and the Semantics of Natural Language.Friederike Moltmann - 2013 - Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
    This book pursues the question of how and whether natural language allows for reference to abstract objects in a fully systematic way. By making full use of contemporary linguistic semantics, it presents a much greater range of linguistic generalizations than has previously been taken into consideration in philosophical discussions, and it argues for an ontological picture is very different from that generally taken for granted by philosophers and semanticists alike. Reference to abstract objects such as properties, numbers, propositions, (...)
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  2. Language as a disruptive technology: Abstract concepts, embodiment and the flexible mind.Guy Dove - 2018 - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 1752 (373):1-9.
    A growing body of evidence suggests that cognition is embodied and grounded. Abstract concepts, though, remain a significant theoretical chal- lenge. A number of researchers have proposed that language makes an important contribution to our capacity to acquire and employ concepts, particularly abstract ones. In this essay, I critically examine this suggestion and ultimately defend a version of it. I argue that a successful account of how language augments cognition should emphasize its symbolic properties and incorporate a view (...)
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  3. Assessing abstract thought and its relation to language with a new nonverbal paradigm: Evidence from aphasia.Peter Langland-Hassan, Frank R. Faries, Maxwell Gatyas, Aimee Dietz & Michael J. Richardson - 2021 - Cognition 211 (C):104622.
    In recent years, language has been shown to play a number of important cognitive roles over and above the communication of thoughts. One hypothesis gaining support is that language facilitates thought about abstract categories, such as democracy or prediction. To test this proposal, a novel set of semantic memory task trials, designed for assessing abstract thought non-linguistically, were normed for levels of abstractness. The trials were rated as more or less abstract to the degree that answering them (...)
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  4. Abstract Objects and the Core-Periphery Distinction in the Ontological and the Conceptual Domain of Natural Language.Friederike Moltmann - 2020 - In José Luis Falguera & Concha Martínez-Vida (eds.), Abstract Objects: For and Against. Springer. pp. 255-276.
    This paper elaborates distinctions between a core and a periphery in the ontological and the conceptual domain associated with natural language. The ontological core-periphery distinction is essential for natural language ontology and is the basis for the central thesis of my 2013 book Abstract Objects and the Semantics of Natural Language, namely that natural language permits reference to abstract objects in its periphery, but not its core.
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  5. Language and Other Abstract Objects.Jerrold J. Katz - 1980 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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    Are abstract action words embodied? An fMRI investigation at the interface between language and motor cognition.Katrin Sakreida, Claudia Scorolli, Mareike M. Menz, Stefan Heim, Anna M. Borghi & Ferdinand Binkofski - 2013 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7.
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    The abstraction engine: extracting patterns in language, mind and brain.Michael D. Fortescue - 2017 - Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
    The main thesis of this book is that abstraction, far from being confined to higher forms of cognition, language and logical reasoning, has actually been a major driving force throughout the evolution of creatures with brains. It is manifest in emotive as well as rational thought. Wending its way through the various facets of abstraction, the book attempts to clarify - and relate - the often confusing meanings of the word 'abstract' that one may encounter even within the same (...)
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    Language and embodiment—Or the cognitive benefits of abstract representations.Nikola A. Kompa - 2019 - Mind and Language 36 (1):27-47.
    Cognition, it is often heard nowadays, is embodied. My concern is with embodied accounts of language comprehension. First, the basic idea will be outlined and some of the evidence that has been put forward in their favor will be examined. Second, their empiricist heritage and their conception of abstract ideas will be discussed. Third, an objection will be raised according to which embodied accounts underestimate the cognitive functions language fulfills. The remainder of the paper will be devoted to arguing (...)
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  9. Languages and Other Abstract Structures.Ryan Mark Nefdt - 2018 - In Martin Neef & Christina Behme (eds.), Essays on Linguistic Realism. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 139-184.
    My aim in this chapter is to extend the Realist account of the foundations of linguistics offered by Postal, Katz and others. I first argue against the idea that naive Platonism can capture the necessary requirements on what I call a ‘mixed realist’ view of linguistics, which takes aspects of Platonism, Nominalism and Mentalism into consideration. I then advocate three desiderata for an appropriate ‘mixed realist’ account of linguistic ontology and foundations, namely (1) linguistic creativity and infinity, (2) linguistics as (...)
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    Words have a weight: Language as a source of inner grounding and flexibility in abstract concepts.Guy Dove, Laura Barca, Luca Tummolini & Anna M. Borghi - 2020 - Psychological Research 1 (Advanced Online Publication):1-17.
    The role played by language in our cognitive lives is a topic at the centre of contemporary debates in cognitive (neuro)science. In this paper we illustrate and compare two theories that offer embodied explanations of this role: the WAT (words as social tools) and the LENS (language is an embodied neuroenhancement and scaffold) theories. WAT and LENS differ from other current proposals, because they connect the impact of the neurologically realized language system on our cognition to the ways in which (...)
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    The freedom of words: abstractness and the power of language.Anna M. Borghi - 2023 - New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
    This volume explores how language, and particularly abstract language, shapes our thought. Academic researchers and graduate students in philosophy of language and cognitive sciences will benefit.
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    Abstracts from Logic Form: An Experimental Study of the Nexus between Language and Logic I.Joseph S. Fulda - 2006 - Journal of Pragmatics 38 (5):778-807.
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    Abstraction and the Language Familiarity Effect.Elizabeth K. Johnson, Laurence Bruggeman & Anne Cutler - 2018 - Cognitive Science 42 (2):633-645.
    Talkers are recognized more accurately if they are speaking the listeners’ native language rather than an unfamiliar language. This “language familiarity effect” has been shown not to depend upon comprehension and must instead involve language sound patterns. We further examine the level of sound-pattern processing involved, by comparing talker recognition in foreign languages versus two varieties of English, by English speakers of one variety, English speakers of the other variety, and non-native listeners. All listener groups performed better with native (...)
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  14. Language, Philosophies and Degrees of Abstraction.William E. Fitzgibbon - 1970 - Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 44:108.
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    Abstracts from Logical Form: An Experimental Study of the Nexus between Language and Logic II.Joseph S. Fulda - 2006 - Journal of Pragmatics 38 (6):925-943.
    This experimental study provides further support for a theory of meaning first put forward by Bar-Hillel and Carnap in 1953 and foreshadowed by Asimov in 1951. The theory is the Popperian notion that the meaningfulness of a proposition is its a priori falsity. We tested this theory in the first part of this paper by translating to logical form a long, tightly written, published text and computed the meaningfulness of each proposition using the a priori falsity measure. We then selected (...)
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    Language and other abstract objects [1981]: The metaphysics of linguistics.Mark McEvoy - 2003 - Philosophical Forum 34 (3-4):427–438.
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    Language and Levels of Abstraction as Criteria for Determining the Status of Systems of Logic.G. H. Brutian - 1975 - Russian Studies in Philosophy 14 (3):3-23.
    1. "The map of logic." Comparatively recently, Kant's words to the effect that in the two thousand years since Aristotle logic had made "not a single step forward and, all things considered, it seems to be a fully finished and completed discipline" used to be quoted widely and not unsympathetically. Today, however, there are works about logic in which the listing of logical disciplines runs into the dozens. In this regard the attempt by the American logician N. Rescher to compile (...)
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  18. The Language of Evil: Hannah Arendt and the Abstract Expressionist Response to the Second World War.S. Zucker - 1998 - Analecta Husserliana 55:345-358.
     
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    Language, Philosophies and Degrees of Abstraction.William E. Fitzgibbon - 1970 - Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 44:108-113.
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  20. Abstract of "contrast and implication in natural language".Yoad Winter - manuscript
    In this paper we introduce a theoretical framework and a logical application for analyzing the semantics and pragmatics of contrastive conjunctions in natural language. It is shown how expressions like "although", "nevertheless", "yet" and "but" are semantically definable as connectives using an operator for implication in natural language, and how similar pragmatic principles affect the behaviour of both contrastive conjunctions and indicative conditionals. Following previous proposals, conditions on contrast in a conjunction are analyzed as presuppositions of the conjunction. Further linguistic (...)
     
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    Learning abstract visual concepts via probabilistic program induction in a Language of Thought.Matthew C. Overlan, Robert A. Jacobs & Steven T. Piantadosi - 2017 - Cognition 168 (C):320-334.
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    Language and Other Abstract Objects. [REVIEW]Sally McConnell-Ginet - 1985 - Philosophical Review 94 (4):590.
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    Abstract of "An Anti-Realist Perspective on Language, Thought, Logic and the History of Analytic Philosophy".Fabrice Pataut - unknown
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    abstract: “Between The Silence of Things and the Language of Philosophy”.Stephen Noble - 2005 - Chiasmi International 6:144-144.
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    Language and Other Abstract Objects.Steven Davis - 1985 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 46 (2):339-344.
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    Language Processing Differences Between Blind and Sighted Individuals and the Abstract Versus Concrete Concept Difference.Enrique Canessa, Sergio E. Chaigneau & Sebastián Moreno - 2021 - Cognitive Science 45 (10):e13044.
    In the property listing task (PLT), participants are asked to list properties for a concept (e.g., for the concept dog, “barks,” and “is a pet” may be produced). In conceptual property norming (CPNs) studies, participants are asked to list properties for large sets of concepts. Here, we use a mathematical model of the property listing process to explore two longstanding issues: characterizing the difference between concrete and abstract concepts, and characterizing semantic knowledge in the blind versus sighted population. When (...)
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    Language universals: Abstract but not mythological.Mark C. Baker - 2009 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (5):448-449.
    I present the so-called Verb-Object Constraint as a serious proposal for a true linguistic universal. It provides an example of the kind of abstraction in linguistic analysis that seems warranted, of how different languages can confirm such a universal in different ways, and why approaches that avoid all abstractness miss important linguistic generalizations.
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    On abstraction and the doctrine of terms in eighteenth-century philosophy of language.Marc Dominicy - 1985 - Topoi 4 (2):201-205.
    The aim of this paper is to understand why empiricist philosophers of language did not try to refute the Leibniz-Beauzée argument, which questioned the genetical priority of proper names. It is shown that, within the semantic theory which underlies the empiricist doctrine, one may assume that all general terms derive from particular names, while conceding that every proper name can be etymologically traced back to the ancestor of a common noun.
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    Language and Other Abstract Objects [1981]: The Metaphysics Of Linguistics. [REVIEW]Mark McEvoy - 2003 - Philosophical Forum 34 (3-4):427-438.
    Book reviewed:Jerrold J. Katz, Language and Other Abstract Objects.
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    Language’ role in enabling abstract, logical thought.James A. Hampton - 2002 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (6):688-688.
    Carruthers’ thesis is undermined on the one hand by examples of integration of output from domain-specific modules that are independent of language, and on the other hand by examples of linguistically represented thoughts that are unable to integrate different domain-specific knowledge into a coherent whole. I propose a more traditional role for language in thought as providing the basis for the cultural development and transmission of domain-general abstract knowledge and reasoning skills.
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    A Logic Programming Language with Lambda-abstraction, Function Variables, and Simple Unification.Dale Miller - 1991 - LFCS, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh.
    As a result of these restrictions, an implementation of L [subscript lambda] does not need to implement full higher-order unification. Instead, an extension to first-order unification that respects bound variable names and scopes is all that is required. Such unification problems are shown to be decidable and to possess most general unifiers when unifiers exist. A unification algorithm and logic programming interpreter are described and proved correct. Several examples of using L[subscript lambda] as a meta-programming language are presented.
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    An Abstract Property of Formalized Languages which Contain Hilberts ϵ‐Symbol.Albert Leisenring - 1968 - Mathematical Logic Quarterly 14 (6):81-92.
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    An Abstract Property of Formalized Languages which Contain Hilberts ε-Symbol.Albert Leisenring - 1968 - Zeitschrift fur mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik 14 (6):81-92.
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    Language and Difference: The Problem of Abstraction in Eighteenth-Century Language Study.David B. Paxman - 1993 - Journal of the History of Ideas 54 (1):19-36.
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    “Pushing the Button While Pushing the Argument”: Motor Priming of Abstract Action Language.Franziska Schaller, Sabine Weiss & Horst M. Müller - 2017 - Cognitive Science 41 (5):1328-1349.
    In a behavioral study we analyzed the influence of visual action primes on abstract action sentence processing. We thereby aimed at investigating mental motor involvement during processes of meaning constitution of action verbs in abstract contexts. In the first experiment, participants executed either congruous or incongruous movements parallel to a video prime. In the second experiment, we added a no-movement condition. After the execution of the movement, participants rendered a sensibility judgment on action sentence targets. It was expected (...)
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  36. Types and tokens: on abstract objects.Linda Wetzel - 2009 - Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
    In this book, Linda Wetzel examines the distinction between types and tokens and argues that types exist (as abstract objects, since they lack a unique ...
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    Abstract Objects and the Semantics of Natural Language, by Friederike Moltmann. [REVIEW]Byeong-Uk Yi - 2015 - Mind 124 (495):958-964.
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    Language and Other Abstract Objects. [REVIEW]Fred Wilson - 1984 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 14 (4):663-673.
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  39. The role of abstract syntactic knowledge in language acquisition: a reply to Tomasello.Cynthia Fisher - 2002 - Cognition 82 (3):259-278.
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    Two notes on abstract model theory. II. languages for which the set of valid sentences is semi-invariantly implicitly definable.Solomon Feferman with with R. L. Vaught - manuscript
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    Abstract Objects and the Semantics of Natural Language, by Friederike Moltmann: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. x + 244, £40. [REVIEW]Jonathan Payne - 2014 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (1):209-209.
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    Interaction between language and vision: It’s momentary, abstract, and it develops.Banchiamlack Dessalegn & Barbara Landau - 2013 - Cognition 127 (3):331-344.
  43. KATZ, J.: "Language and Other Abstract Objects". [REVIEW]F. D' Agostino - 1983 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 61:319.
     
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    Automata, Formal Languages, Abstracts Switching, and Computability in a Ph.D. Computer Science Program.Robert Mcnaughton - 1969 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 34 (4):656-656.
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    The role of language in building abstract, generalized conceptual representations of one- and two-place predicates: A comparison between adults and infants.Mohinish Shukla & Jill de Villiers - 2021 - Cognition 213 (C):104705.
    Theories of relations between language and conceptual development benefit from empirical evidence for concepts available in infancy, but such evidence is comparatively scarce. Here, we examine early representations of specific concepts, namely, sets of dynamic events corresponding either to predicates involving two variables with a reversible, asymmetric relation between them (such as the set of all events that correspond to a linguistic phrase like “a dog is pushing a car,”) or to comparatively simpler, one-variable predicates (such as the set of (...)
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    "Ut Pictura Theoria": Abstract Painting and the Repression of Language.W. J. T. Mitchell - 1989 - Critical Inquiry 15 (2):348-371.
    This may be an especially favorable moment in intellectual history to come to some understanding of notions like “abstraction” and “the abstract,” if only because these terms seem so clearly obsolete, even antiquated, at the present time. The obsolescence of abstraction is exemplified most vividly by its centrality in a period of cultural history that is widely perceived as being just behind us, the period of modernism, ranging roughly from the beginning of the twentieth century to the aftermath of (...)
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    "Language and Other Abstract Objects" by Jerrold J. Katz. [REVIEW]Steven Davis - 1985 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 46 (2):339.
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    Language and Other Abstract Objects. J. J. Katz. [REVIEW]Mike Dillinger - 1984 - Philosophy of Science 51 (1):175-176.
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    Language and Other Abstract Objects. [REVIEW]Thomas Wasow - 1985 - International Studies in Philosophy 17 (3):117-119.
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    15th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2008)-Abstracts.Sam Lomonaco & Makoto Kanazawa - 2008 - Logic Journal of the IGPL 16 (4):415-423.
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