Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.
Cogn Sci. 2024 May;48(5):e13456. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13456.
This paper aims to show that properties of cognitive/conceptual representations and formal-logical structures of linguistic meaning can be inter-translated, recast, transformed into one another, and so united together, even though cognitive/conceptual representations and formal-logical structures of linguistic meaning are apparently distinct in ontology and divergent in their form or character. While cognitive/conceptual representations are ultimately rooted in sensory-motor systems, formal-logical structures of linguistic meaning are abstractions detached from and independent of the actualized world. This paper sketches out the foundations of how representations of linguistic meaning in terms of cognitive/conceptual structures in Cognitive/Conceptual Semantics can be unified with those in terms of formal-logical structures in Formal Semantics. This is done by recasting cognitive/conceptual representations in terms of formal-logical structures of linguistic meaning and re-encoding formal-logical structures of linguistic meaning in terms of cognitive/conceptual representations. Then, these two types of semantic representations, thus shown representationally equivalent, will be related to a series of derivations across levels in neuronal networks and dynamics. The general discussion on unifying cognitive/conceptual representations of linguistic meaning with formal-logical structures is contextualized within the broader context of theorizing in cognitive science.
本文旨在表明，认知/概念表示和语言意义的形式逻辑结构的属性可以相互翻译、改写、转换，并结合在一起，尽管认知/概念表示和语言意义的形式逻辑结构在本体论上明显不同，在形式或特征上也存在差异。虽然认知/概念表示最终植根于感觉运动系统，但语言意义的形式逻辑结构是与实现世界脱离和独立的抽象。本文概述了如何将认知/概念语义学中的语言意义表示统一到形式语义学中的形式逻辑结构中。这是通过将认知/概念表示改写为语言意义的形式逻辑结构，并将语言意义的形式逻辑结构重新编码为认知/概念表示来实现的。然后，这两种类型的语义表示在表示上被证明是等价的，将与神经网络和动力学中的一系列跨层次推导相关联。关于将语言意义的认知/概念表示与形式逻辑结构统一的一般讨论，是在认知科学理论化的更广泛背景下进行的。
