Thinking Out Loud: An Essay on the Relation between Thought and Language

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Most contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and linguists think of language as basically a means by which speakers reveal their thoughts to others. Christopher Gauker calls this "the Lockean theory of language," since Locke was one of its early exponents, and he contends that it is fundamentally mistaken. The Lockean theory, he argues, cannot ad

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"Christopher Gauker's aim in this ambitious and challenging book is ... to discredit the pervasive 'Lockean theory of communication'... [and] to defend his own view according to which 'spoken languages are the very medium of our most sophisticated thinking'... [M]uch ... in this valuable book... deserves comment and praise."--Philosophical Quarterly