Terms
Philosophy
Humanity
Terms II
Potpourri
100
Unbound, undetermined, uncaused, creative, coherent, and thought-provoking are collection properties of this.
What is language?
100
This type of philosophy is the science of mechanics.
What is mechanical philosophy?
100
The ability to attain and acquire language in humans was a result of this.
What is evolution?
100
This term is used to described imaginative concepts.
What are fictitious constructions?
100
According to Noam Chomsky, meanings of words are a result of this, and are not reflections of experience.
What are constructions of the mind?
200
This term describes the general rules that allow humans (especially children) to learn any language.
What is universal grammar?
200
This philosophy is based on mystical forces as being the cause of things.
What is neo-scholastic mysticism?
200
This is considered to be the major difference between humans and automatons.
What is the act of will?
200
This term is used to describe unclarity or lack of precision in linguistics.
What is ambiguity?
200
According to Thomas Hobbes, this is what gives a concept its known meaning.
What is its origin?
300
This term is used to define language as a state of the human brain.
What is internalist?
300
The concept that languages have limitations, therefore giving them a universal connection is theorized as this.
What is the Principles and Parameters theory?
300
This trait is the reason humans were able to develop language in comparison to other elements in the natural world.
What is species property?
300
This term describes the human cognitive capacity, and cannot be identified in other living organisms.
What is language faculty?
300
According to Noam Chomsky, this tool was designed to provide clues in order to enable innate capacities in order to construct a concept.
What is a dictionary?
400
This terms describes things that are not in the human sensory field, and is considered a normal behavior.
What is displaced reference?
400
This philosophical approach viewed language as actions and behavior.
What is structural approach?
400
Human communication is closely comparative to these living organisms.
What are bees?
400
This term is used to describe a fabricated network of reception in order to interpret messages.
What is a passive system?
400
Human brain mechanisms are mainly driven by this factor.
What are ethics?
500
This term is utilized to describe the human ability to recognize and balance the surrounding environment.
What is spatial orientation?
500
This period of time shifted its focus to the reintroduction of the inner mechanisms of language.
What is the cognitive revolution?
500
This ability in humans is what separates us from other living species and automatons.
What is the ability to speak thoughts?
500
According to Noam Chomsky, because humans developed universal grammar, this is only essential when learning a new language.
What is an external case?
500
In order for the language faculty to fully function in an organism, it must have access to and work cohesively with this.
What is the sensory motor apparatus?
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