Predicative minds: the social ontogeny of propositional thinking
RIS ID
80490
Abstract
To predicate is to attribute one represented item of another — for example, to say of a book that it is exciting. Only human minds are predicative minds. But we are not natural-born predicators; we become so by a process of socialization into linguistic practices. That is the central hypothesis of this book
Publication Details
Hutto, D. D. (2010). Predicative minds: the social ontogeny of propositional thinking. Mind, 119 (476), 1141-1145.