Author : Dan Sperber
Release : 1975
Genre : Psychology
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Rethinking Symbolism by : Dan Sperber
Download or read book Rethinking Symbolism written by Dan Sperber. This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sperber gives a cognitive account of symbolism by which symbols represent knowledge, but knowledge which is distinct from 'encyclopaedic' knowledge. Symbolic knowledge is knowledge not of things or of words, but of the memory of things and words, of conceptual representations. It depends on processes of displacement of attention, and of evocation; it is an improvisation which rests upon implicit knowledge and obeys unconsciuos rules."--Back cover.