Learning from Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Learning from Words write by Jennifer Lackey. This book was released on 2010-03-18. Learning from Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Testimony is an invaluable source of knowledge. We rely on the reports of those around us for everything from the ingredients in our food and medicine to the identity of our family members. Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the epistemology of testimony. Despite the multitude of views offered, a single thesis is nearly universally accepted: testimonial knowledge is acquired through the process of transmission from speaker to hearer. In this book, Jennifer Lackey shows that this thesis is false and, hence, that the literature on testimony has been shaped at its core by a view that is fundamentally misguided. She then defends a detailed alternative to this conception of testimony: whereas the views currently dominant focus on the epistemic status of what speakers believe, Lackey advances a theory that instead centers on what speakers say. The upshot is that, strictly speaking, we do not learn from one another's beliefs - we learn from one another's words. Once this shift in focus is in place, Lackey goes on to argue that, though positive reasons are necessary for testimonial knowledge, testimony itself is an irreducible epistemic source. This leads to the development of a theory that gives proper credence to testimony's epistemologically dual nature: both the speaker and the hearer must make a positive epistemic contribution to testimonial knowledge. The resulting view not only reveals that testimony has the capacity to generate knowledge, but it also gives appropriate weight to our nature as both socially indebted and individually rational creatures. The approach found in this book will, then, represent a radical departure from the views currently dominating the epistemology of testimony, and thus is intended to reshape our understanding of the deep and ubiquitous reliance we have on the testimony of those around us.
Learning from Words
Learning from Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Learning from Words write by Jennifer Lackey. This book was released on 2008-02-28. Learning from Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jennifer Lackey reshapes the vigorous current debate on testimony by showing that the standard view of the transmission of knowledge by testimony is fundamentally misguided. Her radical new theory holds that testimony is itself an irreducible source of new knowledge, to which both speaker and hearer contribute.
How Children Learn the Meanings of Words
How Children Learn the Meanings of Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Children Learn the Meanings of Words write by Paul Bloom. This book was released on 2002-01-25. How Children Learn the Meanings of Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of verbs like "think," adjectives like "good," and words for abstract entities such as "mortgage" and "story"? The acquisition of word meaning is one of the fundamental issues in the study of mind. According to Paul Bloom, children learn words through sophisticated cognitive abilities that exist for other purposes. These include the ability to infer others' intentions, the ability to acquire concepts, an appreciation of syntactic structure, and certain general learning and memory abilities. Although other researchers have associated word learning with some of these capacities, Bloom is the first to show how a complete explanation requires all of them. The acquisition of even simple nouns requires rich conceptual, social, and linguistic capacities interacting in complex ways. This book requires no background in psychology or linguistics and is written in a clear, engaging style. Topics include the effects of language on spatial reasoning, the origin of essentialist beliefs, and the young child's understanding of representational art. The book should appeal to general readers interested in language and cognition as well as to researchers in the field.
Teaching Languages to Young Learners
Teaching Languages to Young Learners - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teaching Languages to Young Learners write by Lynne Cameron. This book was released on 2001-03-15. Teaching Languages to Young Learners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book will develop readers' understanding of children are being taught a foreign language.
Big Board First 100 Words
Big Board First 100 Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big Board First 100 Words write by Roger Priddy. This book was released on 2005-08-01. Big Board First 100 Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Roger Priddy’s Big Board First 100 Words is a perfect children’s book offering simple everyday words for infants and toddlers to develop their vocabulary. Featuring 100 beautiful color photographs, this tough board book introduces words and phrases of animals, toys, vehicles, and items used for mealtimes, bathtimes, and bedtimes that are ideal for children aged 2 and up to learn how to read and identify objects.
