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The basic provisions of conceptual semantics that were proposed by the well-known linguist S. Pinker are discussed in this paper. As well as other concepts of cognitive semantics, this concept emphasizes the fundamental role of human physical in the formation of cognitive processes. One important thesis of S. Pinker is the assertion of the existence of a language of thought, which serves to represent word meanings in the mind and is primary in nature relationship to verbal language.
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Original Russian Text © O.P. Kuznetsov, 2014, published in Iskusstvennyi Intellekt i Prinyatie Reshenii, 2014, No. 3, pp. 32–39.
...even tending toward abstraction, you can not come to terms with the loss of visibility, and the presentation that lacks the props of strong, stout sensuality, full of formulas, speaking about the stone more than the very stone being seen, experienced as taste and touch, such presentation is boring and burdensome for you, or at least, leaves a feeling of dissatisfaction, familiar even to outstanding theorists, your most fascinating abstractors. Stanislaw Lem, Golem XIV
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Kuznetsov, O.P. Conceptual semantics. Sci. Tech.Inf. Proc. 42, 307–312 (2015). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0147688215050044
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