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framework for research on both psychological and computational tasks. One important part of this is the logical-historical development of the meaning category. It is shown that meaning is nothing absolute but subjective. Meaning is neither a property of things nor only present as an imagination of
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A similar understanding developed in cultural studies of science: "Cultural studies thereby articulate dynamic, expressive conceptions of meaning, knowledge, and power, which contrast sharply with the standard approaches to these phenomena within philosophy and social theory. On such accounts,
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Very early on,...emphasis began shifting from 'meaning' to 'information', from the construction of meaning to the processing of information. These are profoundly different matters. The key factor in the shift was the introduction of computation as the ruling metaphor and of computability as a
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meaning is not a property of utterances or actions; the term `meaning' instead articulates the ways in which such performances inferentially draw upon and transform the field of prior performances in which they are situated."
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cognition. Thus, meanings cannot be "defined" or "assigned" as commonly thought. Meanings arise from societal production of
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These multidisciplinary uses of the term are not independent and can more or less overlap; each construction of the term
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necessary criterion of a good theoretical model. Information is indifferent with respect to meaning...
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Meretz, Stefan. 1999. "Meaning concepts used in psychology and computer sciences." Pp. 120–28 in
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Language and Representation. A socio-naturalistic approach to human development
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Rouse, J. 1999. "Understanding scientific practices." Pp. 442–56 in
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Engaging Science: How to Understand its Practices Philosophically
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can correspond with related constructions in other fields. The
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Rouse, J. 2001. "Cultural Studies of Science." Pp. 3125–27
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epistemological
disciplines
logical positivists
Jerome Bruner
cognitive psychology
critical psychology
metatheoretical
use-value
Ideasthesia
Meaning (disambiguation)
Meaning (philosophy)
The verifiability theory of meaning
Sellars, Wilfrid
Behaviorism, language and meaning
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
Skinner, B. F
Verbal Behavior
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Affective neuroscience
Affective science

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