Tag: theory
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Word of the Week: Theory of Mind
Theory of mind is the ability to interpret the mental states of others, such as beliefs, desires, and emotions. Theory of mind allows a person to understand others’ thoughts and intentions as well as explain and predict others’ behavior. It also allows a person to understand that someone may hold different beliefs than their own.…
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Word of the Week: The Five Domains of Language
The domains of language are the broad ways to analyze language. The five domains are phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The domains can be understood as lenses through which we can study language, with each one contributing something different. When put together, they form our complex and ever-changing language system. Phonology is the study…
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Word of the Week: The Gavagai Problem
The Gavagai problem describes the enormous task of word learning. To learn a word’s meaning, we begin by matching words to referents, or the thing to which a word refers. The word “gavagai” originates from a thought experiment proposed by the philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine in 1960. It goes along the lines of this:…
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