Biolinguistics and Platonism: Contradictory or Consilient?

It has been argued that language is a Platonic object, and therefore that a biolinguistic ontology is incoherent. In particular, the notion of language as a system of discrete infinity has been argued to be inconsistent with the assumption of a physical (finite) basis for language. These arguments a...

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Main Author: Jeffrey Watumull
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2013-12-01
Series:Biolinguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5964/bioling.8969