...is not what I’d call “mainstream academia.” Its program of “general semantics” is instead what Martin Gardner labeled as “cultism and pseudo-science” in one chapter of Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Despite this, Language in Thought and Action is pretty good.
...is not what I’d call “mainstream academia.” Its program of “general semantics” is instead what Martin Gardner labeled as “cultism and pseudo-science” in one chapter of Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Despite this, Language in Thought and Action is pretty good.