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Categories and Language

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Abstract

Language exists because human subjects define themselves in the circumstance they are in. This is possible because they are able to know, not directly through their senses only, but adding something new to the construct they create in their conscience. The main thing they add to the construct created is categories, something invented or fabricated by the human subject at the moment of speaking.

DOI 10.11648/j.ijll.s.2015030601.22
Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 3, Issue 6-1, November 2015)

This article belongs to the Special Issue Linguistics of Saying

Page(s) 96-104
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Keywords

Act of Knowing, the Human Subject, Speaking, Saying and Knowing, Category, Instruments a Priori, Scientific Categories, Categories of Knowledge, Linguistic Categories

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