The embodied and the symbolic in thought
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https://doi.org/10.24310/NATyLIB.2022.vi16.14138Keywords:
Thoughts, Neurology, Linguistic, Mathematics, ConceptsAbstract
From the perspective of Neurology, Linguistics, Mathematics and Physics the semantic foundations of the concepts are analysed to conclude that, although biologically and operationally they are based on the sensory-motor apparatus of the person, their use in fields of high level of abstraction, such as Mathematics and Science, is based on some abstract interpretative system, and therefore of symbolic nature. A hybrid, stratified model for thought, showing a scaling of the abstraction level of the concepts, is proposed.
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