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Talking to Cats, Rats and Bats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2010

K. V. Wilkes
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This paper tries to argue that at least some alluring, trendy or fashionable problems to do with thought and language — several of which are discussed in this volume — are in fact alluring, trendy or fashionable red herrings or cul-de-sacs. I shall primarily be concerned with the ascription of thought and intelligence to non-language-users; but, en route to that, will need to brood over our ascriptions of such terms quite generally.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 42 , March 1997 , pp. 177 - 195
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1997

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