TY - BOOK
T1 - The Abstraction Engine
T2 - Extracting patterns in language, mind and brain
AU - Fortescue, Michael David
N1 - Advances in Consciousness Research
ISSN: 1381-589X
Bind: 94
PY - 2017/4
Y1 - 2017/4
N2 - The main thesis of this book is that abstraction, far from being confined to higher formsof cognition, language and logical reasoning, has actually been a major driving forcethroughout the evolution of creatures with brains. It is manifest in emotive as well as rationalthought. Wending its way through the various facets of abstraction, the book attemptsto clarify – and relate – the often confusing meanings of the word ‘abstract’ that one mayencounter even within the same discipline.
AB - The main thesis of this book is that abstraction, far from being confined to higher formsof cognition, language and logical reasoning, has actually been a major driving forcethroughout the evolution of creatures with brains. It is manifest in emotive as well as rationalthought. Wending its way through the various facets of abstraction, the book attemptsto clarify – and relate – the often confusing meanings of the word ‘abstract’ that one mayencounter even within the same discipline.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - abstraction, consciousness, brain, evolution
M3 - Book
SN - 978 90 272 1361 7
BT - The Abstraction Engine
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
CY - Amsterdam
ER -