A Future of Words: Language and the Challenge of Abstract Concepts

A Future of Words: Language and the Challenge of Abstract Concepts

The paper outlines one of the essential challenges that embodied and grounded theories must face, i.e., that to elucidate how summary ideas (abstractness) are acquired, represented, and used. I illustrate the view based on which summary ideas are grounded not solely in sensorimotor experiences, like concrete ideas, but in addition and to a larger extent …