Human knowledge
its scope and limits
by Bertrand Russell · first published 1961
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on “Ask HN: Good books?” ↗…view I cannot assent: I hold that there can be thought, and even true and false belief, without language. But however that may be, it cannot be denied that all fairly elaborate thoughts require words. > Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits by Bertrand Russell, Section: Part II: Language, Chapter I: The Uses of Language Quote Page 60, Simon and Schuster, New York. Of course, that would contravene the popular narrative…
on “Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought” ↗…Jaro Reinders, & Casper Bach Poulsen. (2022). Handling Higher-Order Effects. ↩ Thierry Coquand, & Gérard Huet (1988). The calculus of constructions. Information and Computation, 76(2), 95-120. ↩ 1948, Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits by Bertrand Russell, Section: Part II: Language, Chapter I: The Uses of Language Quote Page 60, Simon and Schuster, New York. ↩ Turchin, Valentin F. "Equivalent transformations…
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