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Afferent isn't efferent, and language isn't logic, either

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2004

Derek Bickerton*
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI96822

Abstract:

Hurford's argument suffers from two major weaknesses. First, his account of neural mechanisms suggests no place in the brain where the two halves of a predicate-argument structure could come together. Second, his assumption that language and cognition must be based on logic is neither necessary nor particularly plausible, and leads him to some unlikely conclusions.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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