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Kant and the Platypus

Essays on Language and Cognition

by Umberto Eco · 1997 · 480 pages

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Recommended by 1 elite

Recommended by 1 Elite

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

About This Book

A deep exploration of how human cognition and language interact to perceive and categorize reality. Umberto Eco examines the limits of semiotics and the relationship between linguistic resources and experience, using the historical difficulty of classifying the platypus as a central philosophical case study.

Genres

Psychology & BehaviorPhilosophyScience & Technology

Topics

CategorizationCognitionCommunicationEpistemologyLanguagePerceptionSemiotics

Book Details

Published

1997

Pages

480

Language

it

ISBN

9780156011594

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