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by James Hurford

in New Essays on the origin of Language, Jurgen Trabant, Ed

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@INPROCEEDINGS{Hurford01protothoughthad,
    author = {James Hurford},
    title = {Protothought Had No Logical Names},
    booktitle = {in New Essays on the origin of Language, Jurgen Trabant, Ed},
    year = {2001},
    pages = {119--132}
}

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Abstract:

this paper has been largely negative. I have argued that our prelinguistic ancestors could not have represented the world in terms of formulae involving individual constants, where these individual constants were destined to become the evolutionary antecedents of modern referring expressions by a process of externalization into public language.

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